
One hundred and forty characters. Seemingly harmless. Till you tweet something which is perceived to be unkind to the powers that be. Then you can count the 140 minutes before you end up in the clink. As 46-year-old Ravi Srinivasan, an industrialist from Puducherry found out. What was his crime? He had the temerity to tweet about Karti P Chidambaram, son of Finance Minister P Chidambaram.
What was the offensive tweet, you ask? Well, Ravi Srinivasan on October 19, 2012, tweeted: