Twitter, which regularly publishes a transparency report every year, announced how many times governments requested information during the year. Twitter, in the transparency report He shared the numbers related to 69 countries, including Turkey. The published report covers the period from January to June 2021.
Twitter has released a total of 26,200 accounts from governments from 98 different countries since 2012, including South Africa and the State of Palestine, which are included in the report for the first time. 12,400 data requests He said he got it. On a yearly basis, global government information requests were reported to have dropped by 15 percent.
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The US ranks first in information requests in the Twitter transparency report
The 3,026 requests made by the US government account for 27 percent of the total request for Twitter accounts. Making a statement on the subject, Twitter stated that they fully or partially comply with 68 percent of the information requests made by the US government.
Institutions with the highest demand The Federal Bureau of Intelligence, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Secret Service included in the report. The USA, which fell to the second place in the list of information requests last year, rose to the first place again in the new report.
The second country that requested the most information was recorded as India. India, which accounts for 18 percent of global requests, requested information from Twitter approximately 2,175 times.
Japan ranks third on the list. Japan, which made 3 percent less demand compared to the previous period, is followed by France with a total of 1,798 applications.
Turkey, on the other hand, has a total of 335 times applied for a request for information. Explaining how many accounts were requested, the company announced that it had reached them for 1,500 Twitter accounts in Turkey.