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Twitter Withheld 13 Tweets In India Between July – December 2013

Between July and December 2013, Twitter received 2 removal requests through court orders and 6 removal requests from government or police authorities that specified 54 user accounts and it complied with 13% of these requests, the company has revealed as a part of its Transparency report. Do note that in the first half of 2013, Twitter received one removal requests each from court and government agency and three tweets were withheld. Twitter also says that it received a court order directing it to remove defamatory content about a manufacturer in India in the second half of 2013. User Information requests: A total of 19 information requests were made in the second half of 2013 for 27 accounts, out of which information was provided in 32% of the cases. In the same time last year, less than 10 requests were made but information was not disclosed in any of those cases. Internationally, Twitter received 1,410 requests for 2,121 accounts out of which, some information was produced in 50% of the cases. The United States continues to make the most requests, making up 59% of all requests, followed by Japan with 15% and France & United Kingdom with 4% each. These requests are up from 1,157 in the first half of 2013 and 1,009 in the second half of 2012. Removal requests: Twitter says that it had withheld 13 tweets between July and December 2013, up from 3 tweets in January - June 2013. Internationally, the number of removal requests Twitter got shot up to 365 in the second half of…

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