Twitter: total number of data removal requests as of H2 2017

The data displays the overall number of data removal requests to Twitter from the first half of 2012 to the second half of 2017. Between July and December 2017, government agencies, police and courts of a multitude of countries submitted a total of 6,651 content removal requests to the microblogging platform Twitter. The amount of removal requests increased from 6,086 requests in the in the previously measured period.