India single largest source of government information requests: Twitter

India is the single largest source of government information requests, accounting for 25% of the global volume and 15% of the global accounts specified, microblogging platform Twitter disclosed on Wednesday under its bi-annual Transparency Report for the period July to December 2020.

India is the third largest market in terms of users for Twitter with 18.8 million users in India, after the US and Japan, as of April, according to data platform Statista. The US with 73.2 million subscribers, requested the second highest volume comprising 22% of global information requests the microblogging platform received.