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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."

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  1. I've got nowhere else to post this... by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Has anyone else using the classic index lost the ability to add tags? I'm running Firefox 3.5.2 here and can't do it.

    1. Re:I've got nowhere else to post this... by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Because the newer index takes 15 seconds to render and spikes my CPU up by 10 degrees just to load the page.

  2. Re:Your tweets belong to you but... by cyberstealth1024 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Again, definitely an improvement.

    There. Fixed it for you.