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THE IRISH GOVERNMENT has made less than 10 requests to Twitter to disclose information about users in the first six months of this year, according to new figures.
Twitter has released its latest transparency report which shows that in total governments submitted 1,157 requests for information about Twitter accounts from 1 January to the end of June this year.
The data shows that the Irish government made less than 10 requests, although Twitter did not disclose exactly how many requests were made in order to minimise any potential risk to investigations or matters of public safety.
The microblogging site said that requests are typically made in connection with criminal investigations. In all cases related to Ireland, Twitter produced some or all of the information sought this year.
Less than 10 users’ accounts were specified in that information that was provided, according to Twitter.
Last year, Ireland also made less than 10 requests but Twitter did not produce any information that was sought.
A request to the government press office for information about the exact number of requests and the nature of those requests did not receive an immediate response this evening.
Elsewhere, the United States accounted for 902 or 78 per cent of queries. Twitter reported that it gave US authorities what they sought in 67 percent of the cases.
The number of requests from governments has risen in each of the three Twitter transparency reports issued since the San Francisco-based firm began publishing them last year.
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Is ‘droch ula’ not a viable option (meaning ‘bad apple’)?- Just sayin’
Vlad the Impaler is widely agreed to be the figure stroker based his Dracula character on . Vlad the inmpalers father was Vlad of dracul. More likely to be derived from this I would think .
On the Dracula issue, you would not be likely to use ‘blood’ (fuil) in its genitive form (fola) in a phrase like this. ‘Drochfhuil’ is a long way away from sounding like ‘Dracula.’
In my humble opinion, Dracula is one of the best 19th century gothic novel ever to come out of Ireland. The Hollywood versions of the book go nowhere near instilling the intrigue, fear and horror characters suffer in the book. Anyone who has not read the book themselves should do so. You’re in for a great read.
There is always the vague but unprovable possibility that Irish phonetics leached into Stoker’s linguistic vocab. But I suspect he just thought it sounded ‘Transylvanian’.
Is it notable that the Roman name for York was “Eboracum”? Is the Irish name derived from the Latin, or could it be that the Roman name was a Latinized version of the original Celtic/Briton name?
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