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Rushdie wins Facebook battle
HTC and Agencies, Hindustan Times
Washington, November 15, 2011
First Published: 12:19 IST(15/11/2011)
Last Updated: 12:15 IST(16/11/2011)
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Author Salman Rushdie has won a tussle with Facebook over his profile page on the social network. Rushdie’s run-in with Facebook stemmed from his insistence he be allowed to use his middle name — Salman, the one he is universally known by — instead of his first name —
Ahmed.

Rushdie recounted the saga in a series of tweets on Monday. “Facebook deactivated my account because they thought I wasn't me,” Rushdie said in a post on his Facebook page. “Now they insist I call myself by the first name I have never used. What a bunch of morons.”

He sent a photograph of his passport, but they “insisted I use the name Ahmed”. http://www.hindustantimes.com/Images/HTEditImages/Images/16-11-11-metro19b.jpg

Rushdie then turned to what he called “ridicule by the Twitterverse”.

So, he threatened publicly to switch to Twitter.And that did the trick. Facebook promptly conceded.

“Victory! #Facebook has buckled! I’m Salman Rushdie again... Thank you Twitter!” he said.


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