Sunday, July 26, 2015

Twitter is cracking down on stolen jokes

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Joke thieves beware: Twitter seems to be cracking down on plagiarism.

In a freewheeling universe home to millions of spambots, fake celebrities and trolls, it's no surprise that many Twitter accounts habitually crib popular 140-character quips to rack up followers. But Twitter now seems to be using copyright rules to police this comedic fraud

The social network is erasing and hiding a number of tweets reported as stolen and referring to the original poster as the "copyright holder," as first spotted by the account @plagiarismbad. Read more...

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