Twitter had 100 million active users logging in at least once a month and 50 million active users every day. In an article published on January 6, 2012, Twitter was confirmed to be the biggest social media network in Japan, with Facebook following closely in second. comScore confirmed this, stating that Japan was the only country in the world where Twitter leads Facebook. On March 31, 2014, Twitter announced there were 255 million monthly active users (MAUs) and 198 million mobile MAUs. In 2013, there were over 100 million users actively using Twitter daily and about 500 million Tweets every day,
Censorship of Twitter under a gag order according to Israeli law, was blocked to Israeli IP addresses, following a request by Israel's Ministry of Justice. From April 2016, North Korea started to block Twitter, "in a move underscoring its concern with the spread of online information". Anyone trying to access it, such as foreign visitors, even with special permission from the North Korean government, will be subject to punishment. As of May 2014, Twitter regularly disables the ability to view specific "tweets" inside Pakistan, at the request of the government of Pakistan on the grounds that they are blasphemous, having done so five