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Twitter: data removal requests from countries and institutions H2 2017

Number of data removal requests issued to Twitter from July to December 2017, by country and institution

The data displays the number of data removal requests to Twitter from July to December 2017, by country and institution (government agencies, police and courts). In this period, Turkish courts submitted 466 content removal requests to the microblogging platform Twitter. In total, courts submitted 513 removal requests. Another 6,138 removal requests were made from other governments agencies, law enforcement, and other authorized reporters.

Turkey 466 3828
Russia 0 1292
Japan 7 157
South Korea 0 145
India 2 142
United Kingdom 5 89
United States 7 82
France 2 80
Pakistan 0 75
Indonesia 0 65
Germany 1 32
Brazil 12 30
United Arab Emirates 0 14
Malaysia 0 13
Spain 4 11
Ireland 0 9
Italy 0 9
Kuwait 0 8
Mexico 0 8
Canada 0 7
Uruguay 0 5
Ecuador 0 4
Israel 2 3
Belgium 0 3
Saudi Arabia 0 3
Netherlands 0 3
Australia 1 3
Argentina 0 2
Colombia 0 2
Switzerland 0 2
Finland 0 2
Poland 2 1
Greece 0 1
Luxemburg 0 1
Qatar 0 1
Iraq 0 1
Austria 0 1
Sri Lanka 0 1
Sweden 0 1
Maldives 1 0
Portugal 1 0