Twitter ‘snooping requests’ double

Snooping requests made by British authorities to Twitter have more than doubled — but the network rejects about half of them.

Police and government agencies asked for information about users on 299 occasions between January and July. This was up from 116 in the previous six months and more than the total for the whole of the previous two years.

The requests related to 1,041 accounts — almost three times more than the 371 which were specified in requests between July and December last year.