X (Twitter)

X grants itself a broad license to your posts, including the right to share them with partners. Terms can change with little notice and the company can suspend accounts at its discretion.

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X explicitly uses your content to train AI and machine learning models, including generative AI, with no compensation or opt-out mentioned in the ToS.

X can terminate your account at any time for any reason or no reason at all, with no guarantee of data recovery.

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3Content on the Services – Rights and License Grant5 clauses

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Extremely broad royalty-free content license

📄Claims your content

3-A

💬 When you post anything on X, you give them a free, unlimited license to use your content in any way they want, forever, including sublicensing it to others. While you technically retain ownership, X can do virtually anything with it.

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“you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display, upload, download, and distribute such Content, including anything referenced therein, in any and all media or distribution methods now known or later developed, for any purpose.”

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Content used for AI/ML training

🤖AI training on your data

3-B

💬 X explicitly states it can use everything you post — text, images, videos — to train its AI and machine learning models, including generative AI, without paying you anything.

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“this license includes the right for us to (i) analyze text and other information you provide and to otherwise provide, promote, and improve the Services, including, for example, for use with and training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models, whether generative or another type”

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Content shared with third parties without compensation

🔗Shares with third parties

3-C

💬 X can share or license your content to other companies and organizations for broadcast, publication, or distribution without asking your permission or paying you.

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“to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals, including, for example, for improving the Services and the syndication, broadcast, distribution, repost, promotion or publication of such Content on other media and services”

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No compensation for content use

📄Claims your content

3-D

💬 X explicitly says that just letting you use the platform is all the payment you'll ever get for your content, no matter how they or third parties use it.

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“Such additional uses by us, or other companies, organizations or individuals, is made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services as the use of the Services by you is hereby agreed as being sufficient compensation for the Content and grant of rights herein.”

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Right to modify your content

📄Claims your content

3-E

💬 X and its partners can alter, edit, or adapt your content when distributing it, which means your work could appear in a modified form you didn't approve.

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“You understand that we may modify or adapt your Content as it is distributed, syndicated, published, or broadcast by us and our partners and/or make changes to your Content in order to adapt the Content to different media.”

4Using the Services4 clauses

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Services can change or disappear at any time

📝Can change terms anytime

4-A

💬 X can remove features, impose new limits, or shut down parts of the service whenever it wants without warning or compensation.

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“We may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services or any features within the Services to you or to users generally. We also retain the right to create limits on use and storage at our sole discretion at any time.”

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Broad account termination rights

⛔Account termination

4-B

💬 X can terminate your account for very broad reasons including if they simply decide serving you is no longer profitable, or if they think you might create legal risk — even without an actual violation.

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“We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time if we reasonably believe: (i) you have violated these Terms or our Rules and Policies, (ii) you create risk or possible legal exposure for us; (iii) your account should be removed due to unlawful conduct; (iv) your account should be removed due to prolonged inactivity; or (v) our provision of the Services to you is no longer commercially viable.”

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Termination for any or no reason

⛔Account termination

4-C

💬 X reserves the right to terminate your account for literally no reason at all, at their convenience. This is an unusually aggressive termination clause.

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“To the extent permitted by law, we may also terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services for any other reason or no reason at our convenience.”

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Broad right to access and disclose your information

📥Data collection

4-D

💬 X can read and share any of your information — including private messages and data — whenever they believe it's necessary for broad reasons like enforcing their terms or responding to government requests.

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“We also reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce the Terms, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (iv) respond to user support requests; or (v) protect the rights, property or safety of X, its users and the public.”

5Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability4 clauses

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Complete disclaimer of warranties

🛡️Limits their liability

5-A

💬 X provides no guarantees whatsoever that the service will work properly, be secure, or be fit for any purpose. You use it entirely at your own risk.

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“THE X ENTITIES DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT.”

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Liability capped at $100

🛡️Limits their liability

5-B

💬 No matter how much harm X causes you — data breaches, lost content, account issues — their maximum financial liability to you is just $100 or whatever you paid them in the last 6 months, whichever is more.

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“IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE X ENTITIES EXCEED THE GREATER OF ONE HUNDRED U.S. DOLLARS (U.S. $100.00) OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US, IF ANY, IN THE PAST SIX MONTHS FOR THE SERVICES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.”

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Liquidated damages for scraping: $15,000 per million posts

🛡️Limits their liability

5-C

💬 If you access more than 1 million posts in 24 hours (even through normal browsing in theory), X claims you owe them $15,000 per million posts. This is an extraordinarily aggressive penalty clause that creates enormous financial risk.

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“you will be jointly and severally liable to us for liquidated damages as follows for requesting, viewing, or accessing more than 1,000,000 posts (including reply posts, video posts, image posts, and any other posts) in any 24-hour period — $15,000 USD per 1,000,000 posts.”

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No liability for third-party or user content

🛡️Limits their liability

5-D

💬 X takes no responsibility if you're harmed by something another user posts, even if it's defamatory, illegal, or offensive.

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“the X ENTITIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE TO YOU OR OTHERS FOR THE ACTIONS OR CONDUCT OF USERS AND THIRD PARTIES ON THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY CONTENT USERS AND THIRD PARTIES SHARE ON THE SERVICES, INCLUDING OFFENSIVE, DEFAMATORY, ILLEGAL OR OTHER OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT.”

6General4 clauses

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Unilateral changes to terms

📝Can change terms anytime

6-A

💬 X can change the terms whenever they want and only promises to 'try' to notify you. By continuing to use the service, you automatically agree to the new terms.

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“We may revise these Terms from time to time. The changes will not be retroactive, and the most current version of the Terms, which will always be at https://x.com/tos, will govern our relationship with you. We will try to notify you of material revisions, for example via a service notification or an email to the email associated with your account.”

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Exclusive jurisdiction in Texas

📍Jurisdiction

6-B

💬 If you have a legal dispute with X, you must file it in specific Texas courts — potentially far from where you live — and you give up the right to argue the location is inconvenient.

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“All disputes related to these Terms, the Services, or any patents shall be brought and must proceed exclusively in the federal or state courts located in Wichita County or Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those forums and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum.”

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Class action waiver

🚫No class action

6-C

💬 You give up the right to join class action lawsuits against X. This means if X harms millions of users in a similar way, each person must sue individually, which is often economically impractical.

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“To the extent permitted by law, you also waive the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action or representative action proceeding against us or our corporate affiliates.”

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Shortened statute of limitations

📌Other

6-D

💬 You have only 1-2 years to file any legal claim against X, which is shorter than the statute of limitations for many types of claims. If you miss the window, you lose your right to sue forever.

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“You and X agree that you must initiate any proceeding or action asserting a federal claim within one (1) year of the date of the occurrence of the event or facts giving rise to a dispute that is arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services. You and X agree that you must initiate any proceeding or action asserting a state law claim within two (2) years of the date of the occurrence of the event or facts giving rise to a dispute. Otherwise, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you forever waive the right to pursue any claim or cause of action.”

2Privacy1 clause

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Consent to international data transfers

📥Data collection

2-A

💬 By using X, you agree that your personal data can be transferred to and stored in the US, Ireland, or other countries, which may have different data protection standards than your home country.

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“You understand that through your use of the Services you consent to the collection and use (as set forth in the Privacy Policy) of this information, including the transfer of this information to the United States, Ireland, and/or other countries for storage, processing and use by us and our affiliates.”

X (Twitter) terms of service, explained in plain English — TOSTLDR