Just received an email from Twitter.

There are a lot of Things that you learn from such emails.

• You take efforts and revisit your Terms of  Service and update based on the need of the Hour.
• It’s ok to take inputs from Industry Standards, but you should not just copy paste the Terms on which you want to provide your Service/Product.
• Last but not the least, you should update your Users about the changes. The rationale is that your Users had agreed to the Terms at the Time they started using your services, now that It has changed they should know it so they can decide if they agree and continue using the Service or if they don’t.
• Be Open to Ideas, Comments, Suggestions and Feedbacks and further changes to the Terms and let your Users know that you are.

Here is a copy of the message:

Hi,

We’d like to let you know about our new Terms of Service. As Twitter has evolved, we’ve gained a better understanding of how folks use the service. As a result, we’ve updated the Terms and we’re notifying account holders.

We’ve posted a brief overview on our company blog and you can read the Terms of Service online. If you haven’t been by in a while, we invite you to visit Twitter to see what else is new.

Overview: http://blog.twitter.com

Terms: http://www.twitter.com/tos

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com

These updates complement the spirit of Twitter. If the nature of our

service changes, we’ll revisit the Terms as necessary. Comments are

welcome, please find the “feedback” link on the Terms of Service page.

Thanks,

Biz Stone, Co-founder

Twitter, Inc.

Disclaimer: I have posted the entire message in Good faith so that People try to understand the rationale of the Words chosen to explain the Point of Twitter. Please don’t Copy Paste the message if you do take and use the advise in this Post.

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