Twitter Says Your Tweets Belong To You 102
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."
VLAD FARTED (Score:0, Funny)
and then he tweeted about reza and marticock
Re:I've got nowhere else to post this... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Your tweets belong to you but... (Score:4, 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.
Re:If They Truly Belong To Me... (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*.
Hmmmm.. (Score:4, Funny)
If you love
your tweets,
set them
free.
I'll kill
any
that get
to
me.
Burma Shave.
Re:Your tweets belong to you but... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
The city sewage treatment plant has announced that everybody owns their own flushings.