Twitter on Friday said Home Minister Amit Shah’s account was locked temporarily due to an “inadvertent error” and the decision was revoked immediately.

According to a Twitter spokesperson, his account is fully functional now.

The microblogging site on Thursday had removed Shah’s Twitter display picture following a "report from the copyright holder".

If one tried to click on Shah’s picture, a blank page popped up with the message, “ "Media not displayed. This image has been removed in response to a report from the copyright holder".

"Due to an inadvertent error, we temporarily locked this account under our global copyright policies. This decision was reversed immediately and the account is fully functional," the Twitter spokesperson said.

The Union Home Minister has 23.6 million followers on the platform.

The incident comes at a time when the Centre has issued a notice to Twitter for depicting Leh as part of Jammu and Kashmir, rather than the Union Territory of Ladakh.

Twitter has been asked to explain within five working days why the government should not initiate legal action against it and the representatives for disrespecting the territorial integrity of the country by showing a false map, sources from the IT ministry said.