Twitter's latest transparency report provides a country-wise breakdown of the number of removal and information requests various agencies made between July and December 2013.
According to the country-specific data shared by Twitter, India made a total of eight removal requests in the six-month period, requesting removal of tweets by (or complete accounts of) 54 Twitter users. Of these eight requests, two were court orders, while others were made by government agencies, police or 'others'. Twitter says it withheld 13 tweets based on these requests, but did not remove any accounts based on requests coming from India between July and December 2013. This data includes all instances where Twitter employed its Country Withheld Content (CWC) tool.
The number of requests coming from Indian agencies is a big change compared to the previous six-month period, where India made a total of two removal requests, involving "less than 10" user accounts. It's worth noting that in case the number of requests (or accounts) in the specified period is less than 10, Twitter says it does not include the exact number "to minimise potential risk to ongoing investigations and matters of public safety".
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