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Does that vague "bypassing 'technical limitations'" clause also cover tweeting messages more than 250 characters by screenshotting your notes app I wonder?

• coldpie 4y ago
  Obviously not, no.
  • dtx1 4y ago
    What makes it obviously so?
    • jolux 4y ago
      What’s more likely here: that Twitter intends to ban people for posting screenshots of text, or that this clause doesn’t apply to that?
    • coldpie 4y ago
      Simple logic? Twitter is not going to consider posting images of text to be a violation of their TOS. Duh.
      • oauea 4y ago
        Obviously they do. To quote their TOS: > You agree that you will not work around any technical limitations in the software provided to you as part of the Services, or reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, except and only to the extent that applicable law expressly permits. Go to twitter right now and try to post a message containing 300 characters. You can't do it. It is a technical limitation. Now make a screenshot of that text and post it. You just worked around a technical limitation and are now in blatant violation of their TOS.
        • coldpie 4y ago
          • oauea 4y ago
            Have you considered reading the TOS instead of insulting me?
            • coldpie 4y ago
              Yes, obviously I have read it. The technical limitations are that you can post 250 characters and up to four images. There are no technical limitations being violated by posting an image containing more than 250 characters. People use images all the time to communicate longer text portions in a single post. Do you really think Twitter's intent by saying users may not work around technical limitations is to clamp down on this extremely common behavior?
              • oauea 4y ago
                I'm not talking about their intent, I'm not a mind reader, I'm talking about their published TOS.
                • coldpie 4y ago
                  Yes, I regret putting those last two sentences in there. Please ignore them and just respond to the first two: > The technical limitations are that you can post 250 characters and up to four images. There are no technical limitations being violated by posting an image containing more than 250 characters.
                • jolux 4y ago
                  Posting images of text is not posting text. It is posting images. Posting an image of a dog is posting an image, not posting a dog. (Ceci n’est pas un pipe) If you posted an image that triggered an injection bug in their backend and filled a tweet with more than 280 characters, that would be circumvention. But there is no technical limitation preventing people from posting images of text, or dogs. Similarly, the alt text box allowing up to 1000 characters is not a circumvention of tweets only allowing 280 characters. You are allowed to write up to 1000 characters of alt text. You are allowed to post images.
• omoikane 4y ago
  I thought this question was meant as a joke, but after seeing the long chain of replies I am not so sure. (I think it would be silly if this "technical limitations" clause is intended to ban all communications longer than 280 characters, unless they also intend to ban threads of posts summing up to more than 280 characters)