Twitter is banned completely in

Iran, China and North Korea,^[389]


and has been intermittently blocked in numerous countries including


Egypt, Iraq, Turkey and Venezuela


on different bases.^{[390][391][392][393]} In 2016,


Twitter cooperated with the Israeli government to remove certain content originating outside Israel from tweets seen in Israel.^[394]


In the 11th biannual transparency report published on September 19, 2017, Twitter said that Turkey was the first among countries where about 90 percent of removal requests came from, followed by Russia, France and Germany. 


^[395] As part of evidence to a US Senate Enquiry, the company admitted that their systems "detected and hid" several hundred thousand tweets relating to the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak