The Lutyens Spice account, which created massive buzz in the Indian Twittersphere, with purported gossip from Delhi's corridors of power, has shut itself down, citing 'immense pressure from 'the agencies'.

The Lutyens Spice account, which created massive buzz in the Indian Twittersphere, with purported gossip from Delhi's corridors of power, has shut itself down, citing "immense pressure from 'the agencies".

The vague series of tweets did not give out further information, which left a puzzled Twittersphere wondering what happened and who on earth 'the agencies' were.

Under immense pressure from the agencies, The Spice Channel has decided to take a break from Twitter. 1/n — Lutyens' Spice (@LutyensSpice) November 19, 2014

The Spice Channel started a trend and made headlines in the media. Our aim was to bring unnecessarily censored information to the masses 2/n — Lutyens' Spice (@LutyensSpice) November 19, 2014

The Spice Channel is first and foremost patriotic. It will never threaten national interest as is being alleged. 3/n — Lutyens' Spice (@LutyensSpice) November 19, 2014

The account created quite a buzz since its arrival in October, garnering nearly 20,000 followers in little over a month. Given its anonymity, the credibility of its tweets could have been questioned.

The handle would tweet out gossipy chunks of information pertaining to politicians, media organisations and other popular personalities and had garnered a fairly cult following, although it was frequently criticised as being too 'liberal'.

There have been many theories about who was behind the account, but no one has come forward and claimed responsibility. Meanwhile the reactions to the Lutyens Spice closure ranged from gloatingly happy to disappointed and outraged. Here are some of them:

RE https://t.co/EDmKMwrAJK - basically outed and can't carry on innuendoes — Vijay (@centerofright) November 19, 2014

Someone pray tell me how can @LutyensSpice tweets be termed anti-national? What's with this sarkar? What happened to FoS? Sad. — Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) November 19, 2014

Govt is worried & approaching IB to figure out @LutyensSpice & @RealLutyens. @LutyensMasala Kanchan & Prasanna you're safe & already known. — Gaurav Pandhi (@GauravPandhi) November 15, 2014