Terms and Conditions of Twitter - What you need to know
In the "Your Rights" sector of the terms and conditions of twitter, this is what follow: "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed)."
This simply means that whatever you choose to post online is no longer exclusively yours. Anything you post on twitter then becomes their property. This gives them the right to do whatever they please with anything you post. It then goes on to say that twitter reserves the right to pass on anything you post to any of their partnering companies without you being informed.
A common misconception on this topic is that you have the legal rights to anything you post, genuinely because you posted it. But most users are seriously uninformed and tick the "I accept" box for the terms and conditions without reading it.
Another vital point in the twitter terms and conditions is under the "Limitation of Liability sector". This section basically just informs the twitter user that ANY emotional, physical (or any other) damages they incur from using twitter, they will be held accountable for it and twitter will take no responsibility. With cyber bullying at an all time high, one would expect that it is twitters responsiblity to monitor cyber bullying etc and deal with cases accordingly. This could be detrimental for a variety of reasons.
twitter, 1 June 2011, Terms of Service, viewed on 25 August, 2011. http://twitter.com/tos
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