Tracking the Trolls: Twitter Transparency Report 2013

The British government has requested more account information from Twitter about its users than countries often criticised for their human rights record such as Ecuador, Turkey, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It states the UK has made 26 formal approaches for user information, putting it third in the world table behind only the USA (902) and Japan (87). Turkey, Venezuela, Switzerland, Singapore and Saudi Arabia all made fewer requests than the UK at 10, while Qatar, Indonesia, Israel and Peru made no applications. Russia and China were not included.

According to Twitter:

"The United States leads the way, comprising 78% of all requests received. Japan remains the second largest requester with a total of 8% of overall requests, up from 6% in July - December 2012. Brazil dropped from third overall in the last report to the number four spot with the United Kingdom moving up to number three, comprising 3% of total requests received during the first half of 2013.

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