Earlier this week I wrote about Google’s TOS (terms of service) which grant Google an irrevocable right over the content you post through their service.  I took a look at Twitter’s terms of service, and found a rather different story which I thought is worth mentioning:

We claim no intellectual property rights over the material you provide to the Twitter service. Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours. You can remove your profile at any time by deleting your account. This will also remove any text and images you have stored in the system.

This seems like the right way to go to make people comfortable about using the freely use the system to transfer ideas that may contain pieces of intellectual property.

Kudos to Twitter for the straightforward rules over content copyright.

Filed under: Consumer Web, Privacy, Social Computing