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Collection of data on children younger than 13 is regulated by COPPA. Parents need to sign off explicitly on all data that is knowingly being collected by websites or applications on children younger than 13 years of age.

It doesn't matter if the children made the information public. The company can't store it.

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Doesn't that apply toTwitter as well? If the child is under 13 Twitter can't store their tweets?

Yes, but in theory you cannot sign up unless you're older than X.

Thing is that neither twitter nor facebook do anything to prevent children using their networks, you know, data is very important, specially that data.

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