India made most info requests globally: Twitter

The Indian government and its agencies became the single-largest information demand makers from Twitter for the first time during July-December 2020, accounting for 25 per cent of all the demands made globally, shows the platform’s latest transparency report. Twitter publishes the transparency report every six months, which it started in 2012.

India made as many as 3,615 emergency and routine legal demands for account information from Twitter between July and December 2020. Of these, 152 legal demands were made by the government exercising its emergency powers, while 3,463 requests were routine in nature. Twitter complied with 0.7 per cent of the emergency requests made, while it complied with 0.6 per cent of the routine requests made by the Indian government.