So what can other people do with your Tweets?
Can anyone take your Tweet and publish it on their website?
Copyright law is pretty clear: the text of your Tweets is yours.
The ideas in your Tweets, however, arent covered by copyright.
Only the exact wording.
This is all covered in the Twitter Terms of Service you agreed to when you sign up.
So what does all this mean?
Well first, Twitter acknowledges your copyright: Whats your is yours.
As long as someone is using Twitters tools to share your content, theyre free to do it.
These rules exist to enable an open ecosystem with your rights in mind.
Where it gets more interesting is with Twitter embeds, like the Tweet below.
It might appear on How-To Geek, but only because WordPress uses Twitters tools to display it.
In this situation, both WordPress and How-To Geek are ecosystem partners.
Any website that uses Twitters embed API to display your Tweets is free to do so.
The only way to stop it happening, is to turn your account to private ordelete the original Tweet.
If you delete it, it will disappear from any embeds on other sites as well.
