What lies behind those 'Terms of Use'

3. Content

4. Spam

5. Abuse

6. Trademark & Copyright

10. Privacy laws of the users country become irrelevant.

11. If a government or Law Enforcement Officials or Private Parties in the US gets a court order it can walk in to twitter headquarters and help itself to your data. the good news is it's primarily to stop illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity. The bad news is that there is no statement anywhere in the documents stating how long this data will be collected if not indefinitely.

13. Parents or Guardians must email privacy at twitter dot com to have the data deleted (unkown, 2009)

14. In the Twitter sign up page there is NO checkbox to tick stating the user is 13 or over.

15. Meaning that if a child under the age of 13 tries to sign up to Twitter they have no idea that it is against Twitter policy unless they read the privacy agreement.

17. this sentence is then followed by all of the rights you are giving to Twitter explained in the next slide

18. your rights section is really an extension of the Twitter rights section with a friendly title.

22. Privacy such as addresses, credit card information not permited (crystal, 2009)

23. this does not seem to be a large issue at this stage but a good safeguard non the less.

24. Violence or threats (crystal, 2009)

25. a reprehensible form of cyber bullying that will only be acted upon after the person under attack has complained.

27. References unknown. (2009, September). Twitter / Twitter Terms of Service. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from https://twitter.com/tos . unknown. (2007, March). Twitter / Twitter Privacy Policy. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from https://twitter.com/privacy . crystal. (2009, January). Twitter Support :: The Twitter Rules. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from http://help.twitter.com/forums/26257/entries/18311 .