Twitter Wants Transparency From U.S. Government.
Twitter would like to argue for transparency when the U.S. government puts Twitter on surveillance. Twitter has been prohibited from reporting the government’s surveillance actions. The laws has prohibited Twitter from disclosing information regarding the surveillance.
Introduction of the Transparency Report:
The company started to publish the transparency reports in 2012. Twitter has established a transparency report that shows a total of 54 countries requesting information for Twitter’s users’ accounts. When looking at a snapshot of the transparency report; The United States of America and Japan were the largest countries to request for users account information. (Twitter’s Transparency Report).
Removal Requests:
Twitter also receives requests from various countries to remove users’ accounts that involve in defamation issues. The largest requests for defamation issues came from countries such as Turkey, France and Russia.
Increased Requests From Countries:
Twitter has noticed that over the years, there seems to be increasing requests from various countries around the world that asks for account information, perform copyright takedowns, and forces content removals.
Twitter:
The company was founded in the year 2007. Twitter is a social networking service and website that allows for users to send short 140 character messages known as “tweets”. The registered users can tweet and read posts. The unregistered users can only read posts. According to Twitter’s website, there are 271 million monthly users, 400 million Tweets per day, 78% of users are on mobile, 77% of users are outside the U.S., and can supports more than 35 languages. The company also launched “Vine” in the year 2013. The Vine application allows users to record videos lasting six seconds long. The videos are looped, and replayed over and over again every six seconds. The social microblogging social networking website also comes in many forms such as in phone or tablet app form to be downloaded in the android store and apple store.
The company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as the symbol “TWTR”. (Graph)
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