After the recent news that Twitter has begun hiding tweets reported stolen and referring to authors as “copyright holders”, the past couple of weeks have seen several media outlets report that Twitter has begun to comply with takedown requests relating to tweets, notably jokes, lifted in their entirety from someone’s own account and retweeted without any attribution as to their original author.
An example is a tweet by freelance writer Olga Lexell (whose Twitter account is now private), who tweeted: “saw someone spill their high end juice cleanse all over the sidewalk and now I know god is on my side”, which a number of Twitter users have republished without any attribution to her as the author of the original tweet.
