During the time I write an article about image copyrights, it is important that you should be careful in using images after you buy Twitter followers. I also mention that if you’re truly decided to buy Twitter followers, you should be careful about using Google Images. You know why? Not all of the images you use after attempting to buy Twitter followers are totally free. There are some stock image companies said that royalty-free images doesn’t mean that they’re also free to use. You have to give the company credit when you use their royalty-free images. But if the images are fully copyrighted (except affiliate images and banners on Clickbank, Amazon, etc.), I strongly that you should not attempt to use them while you buy Twitter followers to our own account.

Images on Google are not safe after all?

We’ll, sorry to say…it’s YES especially if you are planning to buy Twitter followers! Not all images from Google displayed are totally free to use for your websites and blogs. Most of them came from huge stock image companies around the world, and they are going to sue you if using them without paying for them. In other words, if you are going to use them after attempting to buy Twitter followers, it is considered as unauthorized usage.

In this article, I’m going to talk about being careful of sharing images on your Twitter account. This may also apply if you are about to buy Twitter followers from any service provider like me. Since Google is all about free information (e.g., content, images, videos, etc.), why is it not safe to use Google Images? This is what I have learned when I tried to use few of their images in my website before I buy Twitter followers. When I click on an image, it says that their image can be subjected to copyright.

It means that the owner of the image itself may mark it as copyright, so it’s not safe for you to use that image. If that image doesn’t belong to Getty Images, iStockPhoto, Corbis and Masterfile, you need to ask permission from him or her first before publishing the image (assuming that you already buy Twitter followers for your own account). But if it belongs to any of the stock image companies I mentioned above, you need to buy it from them.

You had no choice but to play by their rules. If you still insist to publish their images on your website and blog (and share it to the ones you buy Twitter followers), you will soon be getting a lot of trouble from them. Masterfile is one of the worst stock image company trolls to send bogus extortion letters to their victims, charging 5 to 10x the amount compared to Getty Images (and that’s just for one image only). Although they are frightening, it only scares you a bit (but don’t just ignore the letter, you need to be educated on how to deal with this on Extortion Letter Info Forums by Matthew Chan and Oscar Michelen).

Just play safe guys, only use images on Flickr and other sites that gives you full rights to re-publish them in your website or blogs, and market them to your Twitter followers.