The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has unsuccessfully sought to remove Twitter posts that are critical of the government's handling of last weekend's flash floods that have devastated communities, particularly in parts of Selangor and Pahang.

A netizen posted yesterday that he had received an email from Twitter informing him about a request made by MCMC to the micro-blogging site to remove his Twitter posts.

However, Twitter rejected MCMC's request.

"In the interest of transparency...