Twitter said it received 2 percent more government requests for account information in the first half of 2016 compared with the second half of 2015, affecting 8 percent more accounts.
The social network released its Transparency Report for the first six months of the year, and other findings included:

Requests came from seven new countries: Bermuda, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Jordan, Macedonia, Malta and Mongolia.
Since Twitter began issuing its Transparency Report in the first half of 2012, the governments of 76 countries have requested information.
Vine and Periscope were included in the Transparency Report for the first time. Twitter received 25 requests for Vine account information in the first six months of the year, disclosing information in 75 percent of them, and 47 requests for Periscope, disclosing information in 45 percent of them. Between January and June, Twitter received 1,283 preservation requests– government requests to preserve account information–affecting 3,311 accounts, from law enforcement requesters around the world.

Twitter received a total of 5,676 government requests for account information from January through June 2016, and the top 10 countries were:

U.S., 2,520
Japan, 732
U.K., 631
France, 572
Turkey, 280
India, 139
Spain, 117
Germany, 111
Saudi Arabia, 99
Belgium, 67

Twitter said in its Transparency Report:
The growth in information requests received is modest compared to previous reports, which generally showed double-digit...