The largest bump was from the United States government, with requests up by 50.2 percent, from 1,622 to 2,436. The company removed approximately 7% of them. A court in Turkey blocked in April access to a number of sites, including Twitter and YouTube, as these were used to spread an image of an Istanbul prosecutor held by terrorists at gunpoint.
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“We filed legal objections with Turkish courts in response to 60 percent of Turkish orders received”, Twitter said.
The scope of the report has been expanded to include information on notices of alleged trademark violations and a section where users can check how different email providers handle the privacy and encryption of email messages from Twitter. Over the last six months, these numbers increased by 26 percent and 11 percent, respectively, Twitter announced.
The number of requests over the last six months is a pretty big deal, because it translates into the “largest increase in requests and affected accounts between reporting periods since we began publishing the Transparency Report in 2012”, the company said. Most of the requests were based in the United States, but Japan, Turkey and India also asked for a lot more information over the six month period. At global level, 4363 account information requests were made and Twitter complied with 58 percent of those requests.
“We’ve acquired 52 % extra requests for account info affecting 78% extra account holders through the first half of 2015 than within the earlier reporting interval”, the corporate.
The United States made the highest number of requests, with 2,436 requests impacting 6,324 accounts and an 80 percent success rate, followed by Japan, with 425 requests on 529 accounts and information coughed up 42 percent of the time.
Across its network – including Twitter, Vine, and the newly launched Periscope – the company saw an 11 percent increase in copyright takedown notices. Twitter responded with withholding 1 twitter account.
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Twitter’s new transparency report is out, and the trend continues. For instance, Gmail is 100 % encrypted whereas Yahoo.co.jp is just not encrypted in any respect. The last time Google reported removal requests made by the Government of India was for January to June 2014, while Facebook on the other hand only reports data for the Americas, Europe and Africa. For instance, customers can now search the database and think about studies by nation.
