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Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You
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."
Nothing of value was not lost.
In most of the countries the transfer of ownership also transfers most of the responsibilities. These changes are preparing to the earlier announced attempts to become profitable soon. The point is to mitigate the risks of legal issues. When money is involved, it is in business sense a lot safer to be an intermediate service provider than owner and producer of the content in question.
I was thinking more along the lines of - teenager gets harassed by others, commits suicide, parents sue deep pockets (twitter)
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
They claim all usual rights of ownership, but foist responsibilities back on the user.
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
Allow me to introduce you to the delete post button. Or the delete account button. Clearly you do not use Twitter. Why do I bother feeding the trolls...
If only I had some mod points. It's true that the "delete" button doesn't actually delete anything, it just hides it from SOME parts of the site. I've been caught up on that once before due to an accidentally offensive tweet (With only 140 characters be careful on what words to condense/remove) that I immediately deleted and rewrote. A few months later I got an angry message as someone found that "deleted" tweet.