"Ownership--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."
Mr. Stone,
What, precisely, is the value of ownership in this context - beyond attribution?
The concept of ownership implies authority/control. Clearly, Twitterers have no control over their tweets beyond the ability to delete them from their own accounts.
Yes, Twitter requires a certain amount of freedom to republish/distribute tweets, but let's not play word games. Twitterers do not "own" their tweets.
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