NP: Wal-Mart's Twitter Account Comes with 3,379-word Terms of Use Agreement

[Daniel Julius]

“Justice? -- You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the
law.”




On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:50 PM, David Payne <dpayne1912 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> From http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/08/wal-marts-twitter-ac.html
>
> "Only lawyers, EULA collectors and legal obsessives will find this funny,
> but it cracked me up: care to access the 140-character pearls of wisdom that
> stream forth from Wal-Mart's Twitter account? Well, you'll first have to
> agree to the 3,379-word Terms of Use agreement that come with it. I know, I
> know, a lot of big corporate entities on social networking sites likely put
> forth equally verbose TOUs, but -- a "Twitter Discussion Policy"? Awesome
> overkill."
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