Like it or not, governments are
more curious than ever
about Twitter users.
The social network released its latest
transparency report on Monday, revealing that the number of
requests for user information in the second half of 2014 jumped 40% over the previous six months.
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Twitter received 2,871
requests for 7,144 user accounts and cooperated with 52% of them. More than half of
requests came from the United States — up 29% from the first half of last year — but the company noted that it saw the biggest increases from Russia and Turkey. Russia, in fact, had never requested data
about Twitter users but made 108
requests this time. The company did not cooperate with Russia and Turkey on any of their requests. Read more...More
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