An example of a 'withheld' tweet on copyright grounds, although in this case it was faked by a rather mischievous F-Secure employee.
(Credit: Twitter; Screenshot by Zack Whittaker/CNET)
If Twitter receives a complaint that a tweet has breached copyright, the site will now transparently display a notice explaining why the tweet was pulled instead of just yanking the infringing tweet.
A policy shift will now see infringing tweets replaced with a warning, such as: "This Tweet from [username] has been withheld in response to a report from the copyright holder," along with a link to Twitter's copyright policy and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Other Twitter users will also be made aware that the tweet was withdrawn and can reply to the withdrawn tweet notice asking why it was taken down.
Twitter legal policy manager Jeremy Kessel announced the new policy in a tweet on Saturday. Kessel said that the microblogging service now offers "more transparency in processing copyright reports by withholding Tweets," instead of removing them by default without warning or subsequent notice.
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