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These are some of the terms of services that you need to know about Twitter.

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Who can use Twitter services? What is the age requirement for Twitter?

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Who can use Twitter services? What is the age requirement for Twitter?

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Persons who are not barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction.

You must be at least 13 years old, or in the case of Periscope 16 years old, to use the Services.

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Twitter, Inc.

1355 Market Street, Suite 900

San Francisco, CA 94103

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Can the company end your use of the service and if so, under what circumstances? 

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Can the company end your use of the service and if so, under what circumstances? 

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If you are seen as a liability to the company or if you have not used your Twitter account in a long time.

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Sensitive and  Abuse content.

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|  We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including for example, copyright or trademark violations, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment.  If you believe that your Content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please report this by visiting our Copyright reporting form (https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca) or contacting our designated copyright agent at:

Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103 Reports: https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca Email: copyright@twitter.com (for content on Twitter)

Twitter, Inc.
Attn: Copyright Agent - Periscope 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103 Reports: https://support.twitter.com/forms/dmca Email: copyright@pscp.tv (for content on Periscope)

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Can the company manipulate and/or modify the content for their own purposes (such as marketing) 

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Can the company manipulate and/or modify the content for their own purposes (such as marketing) 

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Yes they can make suggestions to you based on what you tweet or who you follow on Twitter to market to your needs and likes.

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"We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including for example, copyright or trademark violations, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment." - Twitter Terms of Service

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Learn how to report Twitter violations in Tweets, Moments, Periscope, and by specific content types.

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If you feel as though your content as been unfairly copied, use this form to report copyright infringements:

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We do but Twitter has the right to share you content to the world through a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense).  Be careful of what you share.

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Twitter Terms Of Services In Full Detail

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Twitter Terms Of Services In Full Detail

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Click on link below:
Twitter Terms Of Services

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Our Services evolve constantly. As such, the Services may change from time to time, at our discretion. We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time. We may also remove or refuse to distribute any Content on the Services, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without liability to you.

Vague terms, such as the above quote, help to cover Twitter in various circumstances, but are also what helps lead to major issues, such as the one below:

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"From a simple business perspective and to serve the public, Twitter is incentivized to keep all voices on the platform". That's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's argument for why "Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions" according to his prepared statement for his appearance at tomorrow's hearing with the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

But it's also validates criticism of why Twitter is reluctant to ban Nazis, hate-mongers, and other trolls that harass people on the service: It makes money off of them.

Twitter has been long-known to ignore reports of threats or abuse. It's common to see people posting the screenshots of the messages they get back from Twitter saying that sexist, racist, homophobic, and violent remarks don't violate its policies. Only when they get enough retweets and media attention do those accounts seem to disappear.

In fact, a Wall Street Journal report claims that Dorsey told a confidante that he'd personally intervened to overrule his staff in order to allow Infowars' Alex Jones to remain on the app and to reinstate alt-right figure Richard Spencer.

To avoid being labeled overly liberal which could lead to a flight of conservative users, Twitter has bowed to the abusers and weakly enforced its own rules. And since these trolls can be highly engaged with Twitter, they can rack up lots of ad views. Dorsey's statement is emblematic of that stance, prioritizing user count, share price, and revenue over safety and civility.

Elsewhere in the statement, Dorsey makes a much stronger argument for why Twitter isn't biased against conservatives via data instead of market forces. He says that Twitter compared tweets by Democrats and Republicans and found that "controlling for the same number of followers, a single Tweet by a Republican will be viewed as many times as a single Tweet by a Democrat, even after all filtering and algorithms have been applied by Twitter." It's that fact Dorsey should point to, not that Twitter isn't biased because his hands are tied by Wall Street.

Dorsey also claims Twitter is making progress by tuning its algorithm to limit the distribution of abuse. He notes that signals that reduce a tweet's prominence include if the author has "no confirmed email address, simultaneous registration for multiple accounts, accounts that repeatedly Tweet and mention accounts that do not follow them, or behavior that might indicate a coordinated attack", as well as "how accounts are connected to those that violate our rules and how they interact with each other." That's supposedly led to "a 4 percent drop in abuse reports from search and 8 percent fewer abuse reports from conversations".

But that progress would likely to come faster if Twitter was willing to make sacrifices to its bottom line. Facebook pledged to double its security and moderation team from 10,000 to 20,000 members despite the impact that would have on profits. Twitter has yet to make a pledge as direct and quantifiable. Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg will also appear before Congress tomorrow to face tough questions about whether that hiring and its product changes are actually protecting democracy. But at least it's throwing money at the problem.

Dorsey didn't say Twitter was "incentivized to keep all civil voices on the platform" or "all voices that abide by our policies" - just "all voices". But when Twitter lets trolls bully and shout down those they hate, it's the victims' voices that are silenced by 'free speech'. It's effectively endorsing censorship, not of those with conservative or even extremist views, but of the marginalized who most deserve that voice.

Hopefully during tomorrow's House hearing, we'll see members of congress use Dorsey's own words to question whether his "simple business perspective" is what's keeping such an ugly place to have a conversation.

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Twitter is a Nazi haven for the same reason its CEO claims no bias

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"From a simple business perspective and to serve the public, Twitter is incentivized to keep all voices on the platform". That's Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's argument for why "Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions" according to his prepared statement for his appearance at tomor...

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Twitter asks that you also read the Periscope guidelines, which are part of the Twitter User Agreement:

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"Twitter has an evolving set of rules for how ecosystem partners can interact with your Content on the Services. These rules exist to enable an open ecosystem with your rights in mind. You understand that we may modify or adapt your Content as it is distributed, syndicated, published, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or make changes to your Content in order to adapt the Content to different media."  - Twitter Terms of Services
For more information on "ecosystem partners" and their interactions with businesses and brands, click the link below:

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Twitter uses your Tweets, content you’ve read, Liked, or Retweeted, and other information to determine what topics you’re interested in, your age, the languages you speak, and other signals to show you more relevant content. We give you transparency into that information, and you can modify or correct it at any time.

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The United States has different TOS's than the European Union. Click on the links below for more information.

US Twitter TOS's
European Union TOS's