Huffington Post retweets all of Twitter
US political blog The Huffington Post republished everything that appeared on Twitter last night. The blog has now removed the content and added this rather cryptic message: HuffPost is building a directory to help our audience discover and follow the very best Twitter users. The feature is currently being tested and will …
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Stolen?
"The strange move caused a bit of a blog storm from people who felt their content had been stolen."
Instead of visiting twitter.com, they should try dictionary.com for a definition of "stolen".
Your tweet's too big
Don't want you 'cos your tweet's too big
Mad at you 'cos your tweet's too big
Hates you 'cos your tweet's too big.
(with apologies to Fats Waller)
Stolen?
I'm sure you sweated blood to come up with the those 140 characters of literary gold, but if you're so worried about it being "stolen": don't submit it to a popular public website!
Copyright
Can you copyright tweets?
Actually I think that's the wrong question, maybe -
Why would you want to copyright tweets?
Or even -
Why would you want to tweet?
Twits.
it's not a matter of *CAN* you copyright twits, but that twits *ARE* copyrighten when you twit them. (seriously, how can anyone go from "twitter" to "tweet"... it's CLEARLY "twit").
Although, I do have to agree with your last question, provided you update it to read (somthing to the effect of):
"Why do twits twit anyway?"
"The strange move caused a bit of a blog storm from people who felt their content had been stolen."
Some people are stupid.
"The strange move caused a bit of a blog storm from people who felt their content had been stolen."
Breathtaking, these twats who spend their days twitering via their i-phones are truly delusional.
@Not Fred31
While they're at it, they could look up 'content' as well.
Beh?
HuffPost has content?
Honestly, this site has never once given me even one piece of *newsworthy* news I hadn't already aggregated myself from the primary news sources. If I wanted somebody else's opinion on US-centric news, I'd read HuffPost. And watch Glenn Beck just for shits and giggles.
No one in their "right" mind reads the Huffington Post
Now people KNOW who "Big Brother" is - in charge of the U.S. government through the media...
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