Twitter declares its terms

Twitter is increasingly being used for commercial purposes, there are more and brands who use the service to catch up with their customers. Also a beneficial way. The Twestival, meetings 'tuiteros' making small donations to a cause become popular in different countries. Without going any further, this Thursday there was one in Madrid.

However, if something was struck on Twitter was the feeling of 'lawless city. " The proliferation disappearing users who demanded money to recover the user corresponding to the name of a brand or to hack the password were the most common.

This Friday, Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, sent a letter informing users to create the "Terms of Use" the service so that no doubts remain.

From now clear that he posts on every message will be responsibility of the user who is entitled to "use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute". This includes links are posted in the 'tuits'.

At the same time indicates that the service is subject to the privacy policies previously known and that are going to adapt to the laws of individual countries that used the service.

Despite his success and popularity traffic big question that arises when discussing the service of 'microblogging' is about profitability. For the first time reveal its intention to include advertising on user pages.

The growth of this service has been partly due to the success of the release of its application programming interface (API). Under the terms of use explicitly invites developers to create more services from these instructions.

The 'spam' (unwanted messages sent to haunt) has also invaded Twitter. In the spirit of the company not only kill it, but also remove the accounts who attempt to steal user names, brand names, something that happens often with domain names. "Com" companies, or impersonation identity. Until now it was very common to find names of companies with messages intended to be a price to the account.

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