In a bid to avoid a batch of legal charges from some countries, Twitter has decided to add some geographical changes to the way we tweeted.

Some of you might remember that Twitter, among other social media platforms, was widely used during the London riots, but equally has been seen as a news source during the Arab Spring as users were posting images and videos as well as personal experiences.

A UK judge has also prohibited the micro blogging site from breaching any injunctions.

The company issued a statement, saying that it has added the changes as various countries around the world had different notions of what freedom of expression meant:

"Some differ so much from our ideas that we will not be able to exist there. Others are similar but, for historical or cultural reasons, restrict certain types of content, such as France or Germany, which ban pro-Nazi content."

Industry insiders have raised questions as to whether this is becoming something of a movement towards general censorship, and will users have their freedom of expression taken away.

However Twitter assured that this was indeed a positive turn of events as the information would be available to users in countries where the nature of the data was acceptable.

Also, users would be notified as to why exactly the data they were trying to access was not available.

Twitter explained in more detail:

"If and when we are required to withhold a Tweet in a specific country, we will attempt to let the user know, and we will clearly mark when the content has been withheld. We try to keep content up wherever and whenever we can."