Twitter gets transparent; releases list of government data requests

    Date: 
    3 July 2012

    Twitter has received more government requests for user information in the first six months of this year than it did in all of 2011, the company reported this week.

    Taking a page from Google, the micro-blogging site released on Monday its first Twitter Transparency Reportlisting government requests for user information and to withhold content, and copyright holders DMCA takedown notices.