Policies & Violations
Know the Twitter Rules and report violations
Twitter Rules & policies
- The Twitter Rules
- Impersonation policy
- Parody, commentary, and fan account policy
- Trademark policy
- Copyright and DMCA policy
- Counterfeit goods policy
- Twitter media policy
- Abusive behavior policy
- Private information posted on Twitter
- Child sexual exploitation policy
- Username squatting policy
- Inactive account policy
- Country withheld content
- Twitter supports Do Not Track
- Twitter’s use of cookies and similar technologies
- Twitter Ads policies
- Fair Use
Guidelines
- Rules and best practices
- Following rules and best practices
- Automation rules and best practices
- Media settings and best practices
- Guidelines for contests on Twitter
- Guidelines for using Tweets in broadcast
- API developers: abuse prevention and security
- Twitter API limits
- Age screening on Twitter
- Fake engagements on Twitter
- “Free followers” apps
Report a violation
- How to report violations
- My account has been hacked
- Reporting spam on Twitter
- Reporting impersonation accounts
- Reporting abusive behavior
- Reporting private information posted on Twitter
- Flagging media violations in Tweets
- Reporting a Tweet or direct message for violations
- Reporting Twitter Ads
- Guidelines for Law Enforcement
- Contacting Twitter about a deceased user or media concerning a deceased family member
- API developers: my application's name is already registered
- Reporting XSS, API, and other security vulnerabilities
- Fake Twitter emails