Terms of Service Agreement - Twitter

Twitter does allow you to retain the rights to your data as far as copyrighting goes, however they do reserve the right to take any content submitted and make it available to other companies, organizations, or individuals that partner with Twitter.  This can be for syndication, broadcast, etc.

Twitter’s Terms of Service agreement essentially can take any of your information such as your IP Address, device type, operating system, browser type, search terms, cookie information, etc. in order to provide you with more targeted ads and statistics on the usage of their website.  They do, however, state that your payment information provided while using their services to make purchases will not be provided to anyone else and your personal information will not be made public, however, Twitter does reserve the right to use the information of the purchase you made to better target ads that may interest you. 

Twitter takes no responsibility for data loss or use of your information through a breach.  The most they will ever give back to those effected would be $100.00 or the amount paid to twitter in the past six months if anything is paid at all. 

This is all pretty standard when it comes to social networking sites and their terms and conditions.  Most company’s write in their contracts that they really aren’t held responsible for anything.  As we’ve seen lately, however, no companies really hold themselves responsible when it comes to data breaches.  The only thing they really try to do is to ensure that it doesn’t happen because they know that if it does, they’ll lose your patronage.  Twitter is no different here.  They will do what they can to ensure data breaches don’t happen, because they don’t want you to stop using their services.  However, as stated, they really don’t hold only liability if it does happen.

The one thing you can take solace from, however, is that most of your credit cards, bank cards, etc. have protections built in for you protecting against fraud if in case it does occur.  While that won’t help erase the personal information they have stolen, it at least ensures that your money should be protected.