Twitter on Thursday released its bi-annual transparency report, detailing the number of requests for information the company receives from government agencies around the world.Releasing transparency reports, a practice pioneered by Google four years ago, is now commonplace for many large technology companies; Facebook, Yahoo and Microsoft regularly release their own similar versions.
Twitter received 2,058 requests for user account information from a total of 54 different countries over the last six months, the company said, a 46 percent increase in requests from its previous report. As has been the case for years, the United States requested Twitter user information the most frequently, accounting for more than 60 percent of the overall requests.For comparison, Facebook received about 12,000 requests for user account information over the last six months of 2013, while Google received nearly 30,000 requests over the same period.
