According to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone – You.
Every single line you post on Twitter is yours.
Read Twitter’s Terms of Service.
HOWEVER,
Twitter is allowed to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets because that’s what they do.
The Tweet ownership stuff has already received some criticism for further clouding an already unclear subject. “If Twitter can do what they want with ‘our’ tweets, including reproduction for their own (financial) gain, what do we actually ‘own’?” asks Shéa Bennett at Twittercism. “If Twitter loses our data, closes our accounts or goes out of business, do we still own those tweets? Or are they retrievable in any way?”
Ok,
LEGALLY, based on their new terms, they are allowed to change.
Let’s say – Dell announces a 10% discount, legally Twitter can extend to 20% – who owns the bill?
I know this wont happen, but legally it’s what is there.
Now, think about SEO, Twitter results are helping a lot companies to develop their SEO strategy. If Twitter wake up one day and decide to ban your account and/or delete the results?
Lucio
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People can’t do something about that when social networking sites decide to ban/delete your account…especially if membership is actually free….