If loose lips sink ships, what can tweets do? Enough to worry governments, apparently.
Governments around the world made 796 demands to take down content on Twitter in the last six months of 2014, up 84 percent from the first half of the year, the social network said on Monday in its latest transparency report. Governments have also ramped up demands for user information, raising privacy concerns.
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Twitter releases transparency reports twice a year. Such reports have become more common in recent years as people increasingly store private information online and become more comfortable with candid social networking habits. Many companies, like Apple and Facebook, release such information on a routine basis.
