Twitter said in its annual report that the govt of India has asked for 55% more account info in the Jan-June period: Photo | Getty ImagesWashington/New Delhi: Between January and June, the Indian government made 261 account information requests -- a 55 percent increase from previous period -- and asked for 102 accounts to be removed, Twitter's 11th transparency report has revealed.
The micro-blogging platform, however, did not remove any account or withhold any tweet as requested by the Indian government or court order (there were two requests by the courts in the January-June period).
"India had a 55 percent increase in total information requests (261 requests in this reporting period vs. 168 in the previous reporting period) that affected 57 percent more accounts," Twitter said in the report that was released late on Tuesday.
Twitter defines the government's information requests as requests issued by law enforcement and other government agencies.
The company also revealed that it removed 299,649 terrorism-related accounts in the same period -- a 20 per cent decline from the previous period.
Globally, Twitter received 6 percent more government information requests (emergency disclosure requests and non-emergency requests) that affected three percent fewer accounts from January 1 through June 30 compared to the previous reporting period.
This included requests that originated from four new countries: Nepal, Paraguay, Panama and Uruguay.
"Since the inception of Twitter's Transparency Report in 2012, we have received government information requests from 83 different countries," the company said.
The total number of requests originating from the US decreased by eight per cent and affected 18 per cent fewer accounts.
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