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by bbrks 1500 days ago
Does that vague "bypassing 'technical limitations'" clause also cover tweeting messages more than 250 characters by screenshotting your notes app I wonder?
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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)

Obviously not, no.
What makes it obviously so?
Simple logic? Twitter is not going to consider posting images of text to be a violation of their TOS. Duh.
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.

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?