As a follow up to yesterday’s post on Twitter’s refusal to simply turn over your tweets to the Court, today we are providing a link to Twitter’s first Transparency Report. The report lists government requests for information, government requests to withhold information, and DMCA takedown notices received from copyright holders. The report is helpfully broken down by country. The blog post by Jeremy Kessel also announces a new partnership with Herdict, a Harvard-based initiative that “seeks to gain insight into what users around the world are experiencing in terms of web accessibility.”

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We’ve highlighted a few stories on how government agencies have incorporated Social Media into their daily activities. Here’s a post by Alex Fitzpatrick: “Social Media Celebrated at the State Department.” Fitzpatrick’s post highlights how the State Department is using Social Media to keep up with technological changes in “the ecology of geopolitical power.”

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