[Sly Fox]

I guess it is time for Twitter to open some revenue streams ...

Twitter's New Terms of Service



At the start, critics often said, "Twitter is fun, but it's not useful." At one point @ev responded dryly with, "Neither is ice cream." Things have come a long way in a short time. We recognized potential early but users and platform developers would demonstrate how much more Twitter could be. Fostering an open and increasingly important network is not as easily dismissed as it once was—but it's still fun!

Now that we know more about how Twitter is being used, we've made changes to our Terms of Service—these are the basic rules that go along with using Twitter. The revisions more appropriately reflect the nature of Twitter and convey key issues such as ownership. For example, your tweets belong to you, not to Twitter. With these revisions, we expect some discussion so here are a few highlights from the updated page.

• Advertising—In the Terms, we leave the door open for advertising. We'd like to keep our options open as we've said before.
  
  Ownership—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.
  
  APIs—The apps that have grown around the Twitter platform are flourishing and adding value to the ecosystem. You authorize us to make content available via our APIs. We're also working on guidelines for use of the API.
  
  SPAM—Abusive behavior and spam is also outlined in these terms according to the rules we've been operating under for some time.

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[mrmacphisto]

I imagine a great many Twitter users do so through apps, so advertising shouldn't be much of an issue unless they start blocking apps that fail to display ads and/or pay a fee to Twitter.

[blwall1416]

SPAM—Abusive behavior and spam...

That's like 99% of tweets.

[rueful]

SPAM—Abusive behavior and spam...

That's like 99% of tweets.

seriously. Some people need to tuck it in with the tweets. If i put my phone down for 20 minutes and come back and I have 8 tweets from you, you need to just stop.