Twitter has announced that it can now selectively censor tweets on a country-by-country basis, a move which may augur well for India which urged social media websites to remove offensive contents.

The proposed move comes amid a legal clash between India and global Internet giants, including Google, Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook, over pre-screening user contents and removal of offensive materials from their websites.

A Delhi court had last month asked 21 social networking websites to remove derogatory contents by February 6 this year.