Twitter User Agreement Overview
Twitter User Agreement Overview
Agreement
Twitter Terms of
Service
If you live outside the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom,
including if you live in the United States, the Twitter User Agreement comprises
these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, the Twitter Rules and Policies, and all
incorporated policies.
If you live in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, the Twitter
User Agreement comprises these Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, the Twitter Rules
and Policies, and all incorporated policies.
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our services,
including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons,
widgets, ads, commerce services, and our other covered services ([Link]
com/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-affiliates) that link to these
Terms (collectively, the “Services”), and any information, text, links, graphics, photos,
audio, videos, or other materials or arrangements of materials uploaded, downloaded or
appearing on the Services (collectively referred to as “Content”). By using the Services
you agree to be bound by these Terms.
These Terms are an agreement between you and X Corp., which provides Twitter and
the Services, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103 U.S.A. The words
“we,” “us,” and “our” mean X Corp.
2. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy ([Link] describes how we handle the
information you provide to us when you use our Services. You understand that through
your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy
Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States,
Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by us and our affiliates.
Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or obtained by
you through the Services is at your own risk. We do not endorse, support, represent
or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or
communications posted via the Services or endorse any opinions expressed via the
Services. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content
that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some
cases, postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. All Content is
the sole responsibility of the person who originated such Content. We may not monitor
or control the Content posted via the Services and, we cannot take responsibility for
such [Link] reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement,
including for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property
misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment. Information
regarding specific policies and the process for reporting or appealing violations can be
found in our Help Center ([Link]
violation#specific-violations and [Link]
suspended-twitter-accounts).
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 ([Link]
[Link]/forms/dmca) or contacting our designated copyright agent at:
X Corp.
Attn: Copyright Agent
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports: [Link]
Email: copyright@[Link]
We have 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.
You represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents,
permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for any
Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. You agree that such
Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights, unless
you have necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and
to grant us the license described above.
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, limit distribution or visibility of any
Content on the service, suspend or terminate users, and reclaim usernames without
liability to you.
In consideration for our granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that
we and our third-party providers and partners may place advertising on the Services
or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether
submitted by you or others. You also agree not to misuse our Services, for example,
by interfering with them or accessing them using a method other than the interface
and the instructions that we provide. You agree that you will not work around any
technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse
engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that
applicable law expressly permits. You may not do any of the following while accessing
or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services,
our computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of our providers; (ii) probe,
scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any
security or authentication measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or
search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our
currently available, published interfaces that are provided by us (and only pursuant to
the applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do
so in a separate agreement with us (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible if done
in accordance with the provisions of the [Link] file, however, scraping the Services
without our prior consent is expressly prohibited); (iv) forge any TCP/IP packet header or
any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services
to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or (v) interfere with, or
disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without
limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services,
or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create
an undue burden on the Services. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve,
and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms,
including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests, or
(v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the public. We do not
disclose personally-identifying information to third parties except in accordance with
our Privacy Policy.
Certain services or features may be offered on Twitter for which additional terms and
conditions may apply in connection with your use of those services. By using or paying
for any of these additional services, you agree to any additional terms applicable to
those services, and those additional terms become part of our agreement with you. If
any of the applicable additional terms conflict with these Terms, the additional terms will
prevail while you are using those services to which they apply.
If you use paid features of the Services, you agree to the applicable Terms for Paid
Services ([Link]
If you use developer features of the Services, including but not limited to Twitter
for Websites ([Link] Twitter
Cards ([Link]
cards), Public API ([Link] or Sign in with Twitter (https://
[Link]/en/docs/authentication/guides/log-in-with-twitter), you agree to
our Developer Agreement ([Link]
and Developer Policy ([Link] If you
want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works, distribute, sell, transfer, publicly
display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise use the Services or Content on the
Services, you must use the interfaces and instructions we provide, except as permitted
through our Services, these Terms, or the terms provided on [Link]
com/en/developer-terms. If you are a security researcher, you are required to comply
with the rules of our Vulnerability Reporting Program ([Link] The
requirements set out in the preceding paragraph may not apply to those participating in
our Vulnerability Reporting Program.
If you use advertising features of the Services, you must agree to our Twitter Master
Services Agreement ([Link]
Your Account
You may need to create an account to use some of our Services. You are responsible for
safeguarding your account, so use a strong password and limit its use to this account.
We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to
comply with the above.
You can control most communications from the Services. We may need to provide
you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative
messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and your account,
and you may not be able to opt-out from receiving them. If you added your phone
number to your account and you later change or deactivate that phone number, you
must update your account information to help prevent us from communicating with
anyone who acquires your old number.
The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United
States and other countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use the Twitter
name or any of the Twitter trademarks, logos, domain names, other distinctive brand
features, and other proprietary rights. All right, title, and interest in and to the Services
(excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain our and our licensors’
exclusive property. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding
Twitter, or the Services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback,
comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.
We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the
Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably
believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the Twitter Rules and Policies or Periscope
Community Guidelines, (ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (iii) your
account should be removed due to unlawful conduct, (iv) your account should be
removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (v) our provision of the Services to you is
no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the
email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access
your account, depending on the circumstances. In all such cases, the Terms shall
terminate, including, without limitation, your license to use the Services, except that the
following sections shall continue to apply: 2, 3, 5, and 6. If you believe your account
was terminated in error you can file an appeal following the steps found in our Help
Center ([Link] For the avoidance
of doubt, these Terms survive the deactivation or termination of your account.
5. Disclaimers and
Limitations of Liability
The Services are Available “AS-IS”
Your access to and use of the Services or any Content are at your own risk. You
understand and agree that the Services are provided to you on an “AS IS” and “AS
AVAILABLE” basis. The “Twitter Entities” refers to X Corp., its parents, affiliates,
related companies, officers, directors, employees, agents, representatives, partners,
and licensors. Without limiting the foregoing, to the maximum extent permitted
under applicable law, THE TWITTER ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND
CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. The Twitter Entities make
no warranty or representation and disclaim all responsibility and liability for: (i) the
completeness, accuracy, availability, timeliness, security or reliability of the Services
or any Content; (ii) any harm to your computer system, loss of data, or other harm that
results from your access to or use of the Services or any Content; (iii) the deletion of, or
the failure to store or to transmit, any Content and other communications maintained by
the Services; and (iv) whether the Services will meet your requirements or be available
on an uninterrupted, secure, or error-free basis. No advice or information, whether oral
or written, obtained from the Twitter Entities or through the Services, will create any
warranty or representation not expressly made herein.
Limitation of Liability
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE TWITTER
ENTITIES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR
REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY LOSS OF
DATA, USE, GOODWILL, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RESULTING FROM (i)
YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF OR INABILITY TO ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES;
(ii) ANY CONDUCT OR CONTENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICES,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE OR ILLEGAL
CONDUCT OF OTHER USERS OR THIRD PARTIES; (iii) ANY CONTENT OBTAINED
FROM THE SERVICES; OR (iv) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, USE OR ALTERATION
OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR CONTENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE
LIABILITY OF THE TWITTER ENTITIES EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED
U.S. DOLLARS (U.S. $100.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE PAST
SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM. THE LIMITATIONS
OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL APPLY TO ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER
BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, STATUTE, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE)
OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT THE TWITTER ENTITIES HAVE BEEN
INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY
SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.
6. General
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The changes will not be retroactive, and
the most current version of the Terms, which will always be at [Link]/tos, will govern
our relationship with you. We will try to notify you of material revisions, for example via a
service notification or an email to the email associated with your account. By continuing
to access or use the Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be
bound by the revised Terms.
The laws of the State of California, excluding its choice of law provisions, will govern
these Terms and any dispute that arises between you and us. All disputes related to
these Terms or the Services will be brought solely in the federal or state courts located in
San Francisco County, California, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction
and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.
If you are a federal, state, or local government entity in the United States using the
Services in your official capacity and legally unable to accept the controlling law,
jurisdiction or venue clauses above, then those clauses do not apply to you. For such
U.S. federal government entities, these Terms and any action related thereto will be
governed by the laws of the United States of America (without reference to conflict of
laws) and, in the absence of federal law and to the extent permitted under federal law,
the laws of the State of California (excluding choice of law).
In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable,
then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and
the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to
enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or
provision.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.
Twitter Terms of
Service
If you live in the European Union, EFTA States, or the
United Kingdom
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of our services,
including our various websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons,
widgets, ads, commerce services, and our other covered services ([Link]
com/rules-and-policies/twitter-services-and-corporate-affiliates) that link to these
Terms (collectively, the “Services”), and any information, text, links, graphics, photos,
audio, videos, or other materials or arrangements of materials uploaded, downloaded or
appearing on the Services (collectively referred to as “Content”). By using the Services
you agree to be bound by these Terms.
These Terms are an agreement between you and Twitter International Unlimited
Company (Co. number 503351, VAT number IE9803175Q), an Irish company with its
registered office at One Cumberland Place, Fenian Street Dublin 2, D02 AX07 Ireland.
The words “we,” “us,” and “our,” mean Twitter International Company.
1. Who May Use the
Services
You may use the Services only if you agree to form a binding contract with us and are not
a person barred from receiving services under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction. In
any case, you must be at least 13 years old, or in the case of Periscope 16 years old, to
use the Services. If you are accepting these Terms and using the Services on behalf of a
company, organization, government, or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that
you are authorized to do so and have the authority to bind such entity to these Terms, in
which case the words “you” and “your” as used in these Terms shall refer to such entity.
2. Privacy
Our Privacy Policy ([Link] describes how we handle the
information you provide to us when you use our Services. You understand that through
your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy
Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States,
Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by us and our affiliates.
Any use or reliance on any Content or materials posted via the Services or obtained by
you through the Services is at your own risk. We do not endorse, support, represent
or guarantee the completeness, truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any Content or
communications posted via the Services or endorse any opinions expressed via the
Services. You understand that by using the Services, you may be exposed to Content
that might be offensive, harmful, inaccurate or otherwise inappropriate, or in some cases,
postings that have been mislabeled or are otherwise deceptive. All Content is the sole
responsibility of the person who originated such Content. We may not monitor or control
the Content posted via the Services and, we cannot take responsibility for such Content.
We reserve the right to remove Content that violates the User Agreement, including
for example, copyright or trademark violations or other intellectual property
misappropriation, impersonation, unlawful conduct, or harassment. Information
regarding specific policies and the process for reporting or appealing violations can be
found in our Help Center ([Link]
violation#specific-violations and [Link]
suspended-twitter-accounts).
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 ([Link]
[Link]/forms/dmca) or contacting our designated copyright agent at:
X Corp.
Attn: Copyright Agent
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103
Reports: [Link]
Email: copyright@[Link]
We have 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.
You represent and warrant that you have, or have obtained, all rights, licenses, consents,
permissions, power and/or authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein for any
Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. You agree that such
Content will not contain material subject to copyright or other proprietary rights, unless
you have necessary permission or are otherwise legally entitled to post the material and
to grant us the license described above.
In consideration for our granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that
we and our third-party providers and partners may place advertising on the Services
or in connection with the display of Content or information from the Services whether
submitted by you or others. You also agree not to misuse our Services, for example,
by interfering with them or accessing them using a method other than the interface
and the instructions that we provide. You agree that you will not work around any
technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse
engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that
applicable law expressly permits. You may not do any of the following while accessing
or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services,
our computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of our providers; (ii) probe,
scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any
security or authentication measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or
search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our
currently available, published interfaces that are provided by us (and only pursuant to
the applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do
so in a separate agreement with us (NOTE: crawling the Services is permissible if done
in accordance with the provisions of the [Link] file, however, scraping the Services
without our prior consent is expressly prohibited); (iv) forge any TCP/IP packet header or
any part of the header information in any email or posting, or in any way use the Services
to send altered, deceptive or false source-identifying information; or (v) interfere with, or
disrupt, (or attempt to do so), the access of any user, host or network, including, without
limitation, sending a virus, overloading, flooding, spamming, mail-bombing the Services,
or by scripting the creation of Content in such a manner as to interfere with or create
an undue burden on the Services. We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve,
and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any
applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce the Terms,
including investigation of potential violations hereof, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise
address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user support requests, or
(v) protect the rights, property or safety of Twitter, its users and the public. We do not
disclose personally-identifying information to third parties except in accordance with
our Privacy Policy.
Certain services or features may be offered on Twitter for which additional terms and
conditions may apply in connection with your use of those services. By using or paying
for any of these additional services, you agree to any additional terms applicable to
those services, and those additional terms become part of our agreement with you. If
any of the applicable additional terms conflict with these Terms, the additional terms will
prevail while you are using those services to which they apply.
If you use paid features of the Services, you agree to the applicable Terms for Paid
Services ([Link]
If you use developer features of the Services, including but not limited to Twitter for
Websites ([Link] Twitter Cards (https://
[Link]/en/docs/twitter-for-websites/cards/overview/abouts-cards), Public
API ([Link] or Sign in with Twitter ([Link]
[Link]/en/docs/authentication/guides/log-in-with-twitter), you agree to
our Developer Agreement ([Link]
and Developer Policy ([Link] If you
want to reproduce, modify, create derivative works, distribute, sell, transfer, publicly
display, publicly perform, transmit, or otherwise use the Services or Content on the
Services, you must use the interfaces and instructions we provide, except as permitted
through our Services, these Terms, or the terms provided on [Link]
com/en/developer-terms. If you are a security researcher, you are required to comply
with the rules of our Vulnerability Reporting Program ([Link] The
requirements set out in the preceding paragraph may not apply to those participating in
our Vulnerability Reporting Program.
If you use advertising features of the Services, you must agree to our Twitter Master
Services Agreement ([Link]
Your Account
You may need to create an account to use some of our Services. You are responsible for
safeguarding your account, so use a strong password and limit its use to this account.
We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to
comply with the above.
You can control most communications from the Services. We may need to provide
you with certain communications, such as service announcements and administrative
messages. These communications are considered part of the Services and your account,
and you may not be able to opt-out from receiving them. If you added your phone
number to your account and you later change or deactivate that phone number, you
must update your account information to help prevent us from communicating with
anyone who acquires your old number.
The Services are protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United
States and other countries. Nothing in the Terms gives you a right to use the Twitter
name or any of the Twitter trademarks, logos, domain names, other distinctive brand
features, and other proprietary rights. All right, title, and interest in and to the Services
(excluding Content provided by users) are and will remain our and our licensors’
exclusive property. Any feedback, comments, or suggestions you may provide regarding
Twitter, or the Services is entirely voluntary and we will be free to use such feedback,
comments or suggestions as we see fit and without any obligation to you.
We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the
Services at any time for any or no reason, including, but not limited to, if we reasonably
believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or the Twitter Rules and Policies or Periscope
Community Guidelines, (ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (iii) your
account should be removed due to unlawful conduct, (iv) your account should be
removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (v) our provision of the Services to you is
no longer commercially viable. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you by the
email address associated with your account or the next time you attempt to access
your account, depending on the circumstances. In all such cases, the Terms shall
terminate, including, without limitation, your license to use the Services, except that the
following sections shall continue to apply: 2, 3, 5, and 6. If you believe your account
was terminated in error you can file an appeal following the steps found in our Help
Center ([Link] For the avoidance
of doubt, these Terms survive the deactivation or termination of your account.
5. Limitations of Liability
By using the Services you agree that X Corp., its parents, affiliates, related companies,
officers, directors, employees, agents representatives, partners and licensors, liability is
limited to the maximum extent permissible in your country of residence.
6. General
We may revise these Terms from time to time. The changes will not be retroactive, and
the most current version of the Terms, which will always be at [Link]/tos, will govern
our relationship with you. Other than for changes addressing new functions or made for
legal reasons, we will notify you 30 days in advance of making effective changes to these
Terms that impact the rights or obligations of any party to these Terms, for example via a
service notification or an email to the email associated with your account. By continuing
to access or use the Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be
bound by the revised Terms.
In the event that any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable,
then that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary, and
the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in full force and effect. Our failure to
enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be deemed a waiver of such right or
provision.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.
1. Information We Collect
The information we collect when you use Twitter falls into three categories.
• Personal Accounts. If you create an account, you must provide us with some
information so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a
display name (for example, “Twitter Moments”); a username (for example, @
TwitterMoments); a password; an email address or phone number; a date of
birth; your display language; and third-party single sign-in information (if you
choose this sign-in method). You can also choose to share your location in
your profile and Tweets, and to upload your address book to Twitter to help find
people you may know. Your profile information, which includes your display
name and username, is always public, but you can use either your real name
or a pseudonym. And remember, you can create multiple Twitter accounts, for
example, to express different parts of your identity, professional or otherwise.
• Professional Accounts. If you create a professional account, you also need to
provide us with a professional category, and may provide us with other
information, including street address, contact email address, and contact phone
number, all of which will always be public.
• Payment Information. In order to purchase ads or other offerings provided as part of
our paid products and services you will need to provide us payment information,
including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and
billing address.
• Preferences. When you set your preferences using your settings, we collect that
information so that we can respect your preferences.
1.2 Information we collect when you use Twitter.
When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and
services. We use that information to provide you with products and services, to help
keep Twitter more secure and respectful for everyone, and more relevant to you.
Usage Information.
We collect information about your activity on Twitter, including:
• Tweets and other content you post (including the date, application, and version
of Twitter) and information about your broadcast activity (e.g., TwitterLive or
Spaces), including broadcasts you’ve created and when you created them, your
lists, bookmarks, and communities you are a part of.
• Your interactions with other users’ content, such as retweets, likes, shares, replies,
if other users mention or tag you in content or if you mention or tag them, and
broadcasts you’ve participated in (including your viewing history, listening,
commenting, speaking, and reacting).
• How you interact with others on the platform, such as people you follow and people
who follow you, and when you use Direct Messages, including the contents of
the messages, the recipients, and date and time of messages.
• If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about
the communication and its content.
• We collect information on links you interact with across our services (including in our
emails sent to you).
Device Information.
We collect information from and about the devices you use to access Twitter, including:
• Information about your connection, such as your IP address and browser type.
• Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID,
operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.
• Your device address book, if you’ve chosen to share it with us.
Location Information.
When you use Twitter, we collect some information about your approximate location to
provide the service you expect, including showing you relevant ads. You can also choose
to share your current precise location or places where you’ve previously used Twitter by
enabling these settings in your account.
Inferred Identity.
We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:
• When you sign into Twitter on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or
device with your account. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your
account with browsers or devices other than those you use to sign into Twitter
(or associate your signed-out device or browser with other browsers or devices
or Twitter-generated identifiers).
• When you provide other information to Twitter, including an email address or phone
number, we associate that information with your Twitter account. Subject to your
settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information
about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of
email addresses that share common components with the email address you
have provided to Twitter.
• When you access Twitter and are not signed in, we may infer your identity based on
the information we collect.
Log Information.
We may receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our
products and services, even if you have not created an account or are signed out, such
as:
• IP address; browser type and language; operating system; the referring webpage;
access times; pages visited; location; your mobile carrier; device information
(including device and application IDs); search terms and IDs (including those not
submitted as queries); ads shown to you on Twitter; Twitter-generated identifiers;
and identifiers associated with cookies. We also receive log information when
you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you
install another application through Twitter.
Advertisements.
When you view or interact with ads we serve on or off Twitter, we may collect information
about those views or interactions (e.g., watching a video ad or preroll, clicking on an ad,
interacting with retweets of or replies to an ad).
We use your contact information to help others find your account if your settings permit,
including through third-party services and client applications.
We use your information to provide our advertising and sponsored content services
subject to your settings, which helps make ads on Twitter more relevant to you. We also
use this information to measure the effectiveness of ads and to help recognize your
devices to serve you ads on and off of Twitter. Some of our ad partners also enable us to
collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising
technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by Twitter from
the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other
information you share with Twitter and that Twitter receives, generates, or infers about
you, as described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy.
2.5 Research.
We use information you share with us, or that we collect to conduct research, surveys,
product testing, and troubleshooting to help us operate and improve our products and
services.
With partners. Depending on your settings, we also provide certain third parties with
information to help us offer or operate our products and services. You can learn more
about these partnerships in our Help Center. You can control whether Twitter shares
your personal information with these partners by using the “Data sharing with business
partners” option in your Privacy & Safety settings. (This setting does not control sharing
described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, such as when we share information with
our service providers, or through partnerships other than as described in this Help
Center article.)
With advertisers.
Advertising revenue enables us to provide our products and services. Advertisers may
learn information from your engagement with their ads on or off Twitter. For example, if
you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator
might figure out that you came from Twitter, along with other information associated
with the ad you clicked, such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach
and other Twitter-generated identifiers for that ad. They may also collect other personal
information from you, such as cookie identifiers, or your IP address.
5. Take Control
5.1 Access, Correction, Portability.
You can access, correct, or modify the information you provided to us by editing your
profile and adjusting your account settings.
• You can learn more about the information we have collected or inferred about you
in Your Twitter Data and request access to additional information here.
• You can download a copy of your information, such as your Tweets, by following the
instructions here.
• On the Periscope website, you can request correction or modification of your
information, and download your account information, by following the
instructions here.
To protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity
before granting you access to your personal information or complying with a deletion,
portability, or other related request. We may, in certain situations, reject your request
for access, correction, or portability, for example, we may reject access where you are
unable to verify your identity.
We also use data centers and cloud providers, and engage our affiliates and third-party
partners and service providers located in many parts of the world to help us provide
our services. Before we move data between countries we look at the risks that may
be presented to the data and rely on things like standard contractual clauses, where
applicable, to ensure your data rights are protected. If data will be shared with a third
party, we require them to maintain the same protections over your data that we provide
directly.
7. Twitter’s Audience
Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are
under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your
personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to
do so on your behalf).
If you live in the United States or any other country outside of the European Union, EFTA
States, or the United Kingdom, the data controller responsible for your personal data is X
Corp., with an address of:
X Corp.
Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry
1355 Market Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94103
If you live in the European Union, EFTA States, or the United Kingdom, the data controller
is Twitter International Unlimited Company, with an address of:
You can confidentially contact Twitter’s Data Protection Officer through our Data
Protection Inquiry Form. If you wish to raise a concern about our data processing
practices, you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority or Twitter
International Unlimited Company’s lead supervisory authority, the Irish Data Protection
Commission, using the contact details listed on their website.
Safety
Violent Speech:
You may not threaten, incite, glorify, or express desire for violence or harm.
Abuse/Harassment:
You may not share abusive content, engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or
incite other people to do so.
Hateful conduct:
You may not attack other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, caste,
sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious
disease.
Suicide:
You may not promote or encourage suicide or self-harm.
Sensitive media:
You may not post media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within
live video or in profile or header images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault
is also not permitted.
Privacy
Private Information:
You may not publish or post other people’s private information (such as home phone
number and address) without their express authorization and permission. We also
prohibit threatening to expose private information or incentivizing others to do so.
Non-Consensual Nudity:
You may not post or share intimate photos or videos of someone that were produced or
distributed without their consent.
Account Compromise:
You may not use or attempt to use credentials, passwords, tokens, keys, cookies or
other data to log into or otherwise access, add, delete or modify the private information
or account features of any Twitter account other than your own (or those you have been
directly authorized to do so via Twitter’s Teams authorization, OAuth authorization or
similar mechanism).
Authenticity
Platform Manipulation and Spam:
You may not use Twitter’s services in a manner intended to artificially amplify or suppress
information or engage in behavior that manipulates or disrupts people’s experience on
Twitter.
Civic Integrity:
You may not use Twitter’s services for the purpose of manipulating or interfering in
elections or other civic processes. This includes posting or sharing content that may
suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a
civic process.
Twitter's rules and policies, including content removal for violations like copyright infringement or harassment, delineate the space within which third-party content can be distributed and interacted with. By setting these parameters, Twitter aims to maintain a respectful and legally compliant environment. However, these rules must balance freedom of expression with protective guidelines, thus influencing how robustly and safely third-party content can propagate through user interactions on the platform .
Twitter's ability to modify or adapt user content for distribution and media adaptation means users relinquish some control over their submitted content once it is on the platform. Users agree to these terms, implicitly understanding that Twitter can alter content to suit different media formats, impacting how the content is perceived and engaging across platforms. This reflects a balance between user rights and the service's operational requirements .
Twitter’s approach to advertising leverages user data to deliver targeted ads, thereby enhancing relevance and engagement for the user. However, this practice raises privacy concerns as users’ interactions are used to drive ad revenue, necessitating a trade-off between personalized ad experiences and potential privacy intrusions. Twitter mitigates this by allowing some control over ad settings, but fundamentally, ad-related data practices are intrinsic to Twitter’s service model .
Twitter implements mechanisms for user safety and security by verifying identity, authenticating accounts, and protecting against unauthorized use and fraud. This includes operating secure services, enforcing its terms and policies by evaluating content for safety and quality, investigating breaches, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws. The platform uses collected data to facilitate these security measures effectively .
Cookies and similar technologies play a critical role in Twitter's services by enabling the collection of website usage data, which helps in operating the services more effectively and personalizing user experience. They are not necessary for all Twitter functionalities, such as viewing public profiles, but they contribute significantly to the customization and advert delivery, thereby enhancing user engagement through more relevant content and suggestions .
Twitter's Privacy Policy outlines that it collects personal information when users interact with its services and uses this data to improve user experience, personalize content, and provide targeted advertisements. The collected data may be transferred internationally, including to countries like the United States and Ireland, for processing and storage by Twitter and its affiliates. By using Twitter's services, users consent to these data collection and transfer practices, which underscores the importance of understanding privacy implications in a global digital context .
Users are responsible for ensuring that they have all necessary rights, licenses, consents, and permissions to share any content on Twitter. This includes respecting intellectual property rights, meaning that users must either own the rights to the content they post or have obtained the necessary permissions to use and distribute the material. Users agree to these conditions under the Twitter User Agreement, which also permits Twitter to modify, distribute, or syndicate submitted content as needed .
Third-party integrations impact user data collection and service operation by allowing Twitter to gather additional data from connected services, such as browser cookie IDs or device identifiers. This data enables features like cross-posting and improves personalization by combining it with Twitter-collected data to enhance user experience. However, the integration also means that data shared with connected services can be subject to broader usage, potentially affecting user privacy .
Organizations using Twitter's services on behalf of an entity must ensure they are authorized to agree to Twitter’s Terms and have the authority to bind the entity legally to these Terms. This includes adhering to compliance requirements and ensuring the entity is not barred under applicable jurisdiction laws from using the services. Failure to uphold these obligations could mean legal liabilities related to contract enforcement and rights violations .
Twitter shares user information in several ways: publicly, with other Twitter users, with partners for operating services, and with service providers. While the broad sharing of information like tweets is inherently public on Twitter, users have some control over how their information is shared, such as through their privacy settings and the option to adjust data sharing with business partners. However, these controls do not extend to all forms of data sharing described in the Privacy Policy .