Twitter has made some revisions to its terms of service, to address issues like advertising, tweet ownership, APIs, and spam. There's not as much news in this as one might expect, but there are some things worth noting, namely, Twitter's stance on who owns tweets. Are your past tweets important to you? Tell us.
People who have been procrastinating should know that they're almost out of time. Later today, the Facebook governance vote will end, and either the new or the old terms of service will become pretty well permanent.
Original Article (update at the end):
There are a couple of newsworthy Facebook changes going on. The first would be changes to the social network's terms of service.
After what can only be termed a kerfuffle last week over changes to its Terms of Service, Facebook has decided to take some pretty drastic steps to address the issue of content ownership on the social networking site: they’re soliciting input from their users.
Facebook has had quite a week. If it is true that there is no such thing as bad publicity then this week has been a windfall for the social networking giant. I have even read some conspiracy theorists who believe that the whole terms of service ‘incident’ was intended. I’m not sure I can go there but to be honest it does make some sense.
Facebook recently changed its terms of service and sparked a bit of controversy.
As I was sitting down to a nice comfortable night at home I was alerted via Twitter about a change in the Terms of Service (TOS) at Facebook that could be pretty significant. Since I am not totally aware of the protocol for referencing tweets as sources, I will simply give you the whole deal here so the right people can get their Twitter props:
Music Ally blogger Stuart Dredge pointed me toward the Terms & Condit
Google has this bit in their terms of service: You may not use the Services [defined as “Google’s products, software, services and web sites"] and may not accept the Terms if ... you are not of legal age to form a binding contract with Google
It's nice to see AT&T isn't immune to some heat. The company is reportedly revising its Terms of Service (ToS) agreement after it appeared AT&T reserved the right to terminate service of those critical of them.
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