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Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the learning-from-other's-mistakes dept.

CWmike writes "Twitter has modified its terms of service to state unequivocally that messages posted belong to their authors and not to the company. 'Twitter is allowed to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute" your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you,' wrote Twitter co-founder Biz Stone in a blog post Thursday announcing the modifications. Twitter is still hammering out a set of guidelines for developers on the proper use of the company's API. What do Twitterers think of the TOS changes? Barbara Krasnoff writes, ' Twitter announces new ToS. Tweeters shrug,' noting that some appreciated the company's transparency in contacting its users and pointing out the changes that were being made."

7 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. VLAD FARTED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    and then he tweeted about reza and marticock

  2. Re:I've got nowhere else to post this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Why are you using the classic index while wanting to also use tagging? Either move with the times or get left behind.

  3. Re:Your tweets belong to you but... by itsdapead · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sorry, missing option D:

    Option D: insist that all Tweets were submitted under a copyleft license. Trouble is, every single tweet would then read:

    This tweet is released under the reallyfree copyleft modified attrribute-alike noncommercial license variant 7b which pe

    Again, maybe an improvement.

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  4. Re:If They Truly Belong To Me... by Korbeau · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have all your tweets copied in notepad. I will print them on paper and send them back to you by mail, but first let's play a little game, mister du Keyboard. Mouahahhhahhhahahha *click*.

  5. Hmmmm.. by rickb928 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you love

    your tweets,

    set them

    free.

    I'll kill

    any

    that get

    to

    me.

    Burma Shave.

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    deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
  6. Re:Your tweets belong to you but... by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    What they don't tell you is "the Poster" is a code name of a multinational terrorist organization called "Sphere Tot". And said organization is stockpiling all your posts to be used in the inevitable Irony War of 2012.

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  7. In other news by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Funny

    The city sewage treatment plant has announced that everybody owns their own flushings.

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    You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!