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Account information requests by governments increased by 21%: Twitter data

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According to the data by Twitter, the requests for account information by the governments across the world surged by 21%. The micro-blogging site said the aggregate number of accounts specified in these requests increased by nearly 63 percent. Twitter received requests for account information from 91 different countries since 2012. 26% of all the global requests originated from US, while Japan accounted for 22%.