Twitter has started deleting tweets that steal other people’s jokes

“Part of what I think has happened in terms of the tweet theft accusations is that for years now I’ve been doing tweets that are pretty clearly inspired by the tweets of my twitter heros”.

She added that most of the accounts that were reusing her tweets without accreditation were “spam accounts that repost tons of other people’s jokes every day”. Yet, when someone copies your piece of work it get quite annoying. So to me a recycled tweet is like a rerun: if you’ve seen it, you don’t have to watch it again.

It’s possible to file a DMCA complaint with Twitter regarding a stolen joke as freelance writer Olga Lexell did when a joke she came up with and tweeted was copied by various accounts. I then explained that as such, the jokes are my intellectual property, and that the users in question did not have my permission to repost them without giving me credit. Lexell also has confirmed on Twitter that she in fact requested the removal of these stolen tweets.

Own The ConversationAsk The Big Question: How far will Twitter go to protect copyright on its site? But if you want to ask Twitter to take down a tweet that rips off one of your jokes, here’s the link to do so.

What do you make of it all?

Furthermore, there seems to be a very thin line over the ownership of content a user posts on social media networks.