Information requests on users from India grew 66% to 789 in 2019: Twitter

Removal requests from India also grew 55 per cent to 782 in July-December 2019 from 504 in the preceding six months.

Twitter said on Thursday requests for information on user accounts from India grew over 66 per cent to 789 in July-December 2019.

These requests - which include those from the government agencies (a combination of routine requests and emergency requests) - stood at 474 in the first half of 2019, as per data from Twitter's latest Transparency Report.

These 789 requests (in the second half of 2019) were related to 2,873 accounts.

Twitter also received 144 requests from India for account preservation in the July-December 2019 period, it said.

Removal requests from India also grew 55 per cent to 782 in July-December