New York sources have stated that between January and June this year, the Indian government has made 139 account information requests and requested for 42 accounts to be removed from the micro-blogging website, Twitter’s biannual transparency report revealed on Thursday and however, yet to remove any account requested by the Indian government or court order.
According to the report, the US government has made 2,520 Twitter information requests comprising 44% of the total requests received by Twitter, other countries that has made the most number of information requests were Japan (732), the UK (631), France (572) and Turkey (280).
Twitter has said that overall, removal requests affected a total of 20,594 accounts: 2,600 had some content removed for violating our Terms of Service, 2,799 accounts had some content withheld (account-level or Tweet-level), and no action was taken on the remaining 15,195 accounts.
It was stated that out of the 5,680 total global information requests Twitter has received during this reporting period, 1,155 were emergency requests and the top requester was the US with 385 requests and the second top requester was Japan with 169 requests.
