In its latest transparency report, Twitter has revealed a whopping 40 percent global increase in governmental user information requests, with the US leading the way. Meanwhile, Turkey, Russia, and Germany have seen an increase in content removal requests.

“We’ve received ~40% more requests for account information affecting 128% more account holders during the second half of 2014 than in the previous reporting period,” the report says.

The transparency report, which covers the second half of 2014, shows that the San Francisco-based social media giant received 2,871 requests from governments across the world to reveal data about 7,144 of its users. Some 52 percent of the user information requested was surrendered by the company.

Washington is leading the way with 1,622 requests, totaling more than half the number of global petitions. The company shared information in 80 percent of the cases. That number constitutes a 29 percent increase in requests from the United States, and an increased compliance rate of eight percent.

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