Terms Of Service In Social Media
1. If you are involved in some way in social networking, you have to be very precise with your terms of service (TOS).
2. People are different and they see the same things in various courses. So, you must write with black on white, what are offering exactly and what do you services mean, if you want to avoid future misapprehensions with the users.
3. Please, update your TOS as frequently as it is needed, because the world and meaning of things change fast.
4. Here is an example. Today Twitter anounced its update of TOS. Here are the main points, highlighted in their blog post:
“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.”
Paulius Sluškonis
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