The UK is by one measure the largest requester of Twitter information: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/information-requests.html Bear in mind all requests made to Twitter by government and police must be made by warrant or court order: https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/twitter-law-enforcement-support#8 Here are the figures from the latest report: Japan – pop 126.8m made 1659 requests for details about 2261 accounts. This is 17.83 Account requests per million pop, and 13.08 requests per million pop. For the USA: pop 327,2m, Accounts requested: 3860, Requests made: 2092. Accounts/m pop: 11.8, Requests/m pop 6.39 UK: pop 66.04m Account info requested: 1085, requests: 881. Account info per pop/m: 16.43. Requests made per pop/m 13.34. I venture a lot of these requests were for “wrongthink”, and it ties in with Posie Parker’s recent case study whereby the police requested her information from Twitter – this must have been made by police with a mag authorised warrant. The recently enacted Cloud Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act will make information sharing a lot easier. From the Twitter transparency report, the UK is first in line to adopt Cloud Act access to Twitter (and other social media company) data: ” The U.S. government is still negotiating the first of these bilateral agreements with the United Kingdom. Twitter continues to closely monitor developments related to cross-border legal requests for user data. ” From: https://transparency.twitter.com/en/information-requests.html My advice for anyone is to come off Twitter immediately until this mess is sorted out. Sharon Reply