What's all the fuss about Twitter’s 'new' terms of service?

Well, it all started with a tweet from one Richard de Nooy who found Twitter's not so 'new' terms of service- unbelievable and grotesque. The particular point in contention here pertains to Twitter's ability to offer up the use of user-generated content and embedded tweets to other companies for promotion and distribution.

Your terms of service agreement is un-fucking-believable, @Twitter. This is grotesque. Especially for users posting original content. pic.twitter.com/yEE8xly0kJ

— Richard de Nooy (@RicharddeNooy) September 2, 2017

Interestingly, these terms of service aren't new and had been in effect in the US for quite some time. What seemed to have created the uproar is the fact that from coming October 2nd, these terms will go into effect for the rest of the world as well and the micro-blogging site is likely notifying its users about the upcoming change.

Thankfully, some kind of sense did prevail over with another Twitter user Alex Hern stating the facts.

This section is not new or changed in any way, and is standard for a social network which allows content to be embedded or re-used elsewhere https://t.co/OsLdXzLejC

— Alex Hern (@alexhern) September 2, 2017

As TechCrunch says, "news organizations and other companies and individuals can already use content found on the site, as that content is public and is already considered fair use."

Besides some lingual rephrasing around the right to remove content that violates Twitter’s user agreement, another change as per the new terms of service is an official addition of a 30-day notice of changes to the terms that impact others rights of others.