Twitter, the popular San Francisco microblogging service that lets you share your thoughts online, as long as you keep them to 140 characters or less, has changed its terms of service to help it make money in the future.
Among the changes, according to a post late Thursday afternoon on Twitter's blog: "We leave the door open for advertising," co-founder Biz Stone wrote. "We'd like to keep our options open."
Twitter, of course, has generated a lot of online buzz, but not a lot of cash. Earlier this week, according to Bloomberg News, Stone said Twitter is planning to start bringing in revenue later this year by offering paid services such as analytics.
Other changes involve rights to users' posts, known as tweets: "Twitter is allowed to 'use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute' your tweets because that's what we do. However, they are your tweets and they belong to you," Stone wrote.
He added that Twitter users authorize the company to make their tweets available to outside software developers that have permission to tap into the company's network, and that "abusive behavior and spam" continues to be forbidden.
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