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…that won’t allow you to post the exact same Tweet twice.
Sorry, I’m going to do this thing again where I take your off-the-cuff comment and reply to it seriously. Sorry.
When you post something to Twitter, they can easily check against your user information. Command-line/Terminal geeks can see it here:
curl http://twitter.com/users/show/tj.xml
Your user information contains the last thing that you posted. All they do is check what you are posting now against the last thing that you posted. Running a content check of everything posted against everything that has already been posted? Completely impossible, and a complete waste of time for 99.99% of the cases,
(Yeah, I know you weren’t really serious.)
Apethink also mentioned Twitter thieves.
I admit it’s frustrating when Twitter doesn’t shut them down, but the Twitter Terms of Service do say that people can get their accounts suspended for plagiarism:
The Twitter Rules include a list of criteria we consider when investigating potential spam accounts. Accounts showing a pattern of repeatedly reposting others’ content without attribution, particularly in an automated fashion, may be suspended for spam.
It’s also listed on the Twitter Rules page
*Spam: You may not use the Twitter service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. Some of the factors that we take into account when determining what conduct is considered to be spamming are:
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If you repeatedly post other users’ Tweets as your own;
There are some very specific steps that you have to take.
Twitter wants you to do this:
@reply to the person and ask them to remove the copy. In the @reply, give them a specific URL to your tweet and their tweet, and ask them to remove it.
Give them 24 hours to comply.
Sounds simple, right? Note you can’t just say “Delete the stuff you stole” without telling them what. I know it’s a pain, but those are the rules.
Also, try to avoid being angry/pissy/vulgar. Trust me, I know they deserve it, but later on you’re going to watch to say to Twitter “I ASKED!” and if you look like a jerk about it, you’re going to lose some of the high ground.
Note that you can only ask for YOUR OWN Tweets to be removed. If you see that they ripped off @sween you can’t tell them to delete it unless you’re @sween.
Here are a few more tips:
Expect that they are going to block you or take their account “private” at least for a few days, probably hoping that you will forget about them. BUT here’s a little loophole that Twitter will probably eventually close:
If you “favorite” something that someone writes, and that person later takes their account private, you can still see it in your favorites. You see where I am going with this, right? If you mark it as a “favorite” and they go private, you can still see it later. (Don’t want to clutter up your favorites? Make a new Twitter account. They’re free.)
Even if you don’t favorite it, if you have the URLs to yours and theirs, you can go back and see if it is “Not Found” or “You don’t have permission to see this page” (which either means that they blocked you or took their account private). If you get a message that it is Not Found it means they deleted it. If they went private or blocked you but did NOT delete it, you’ll get the “No Permission” page
Make a list of people who have stolen. Twitter lists are free and easy and a good way of keeping track of people who steal.
Spread the word to others to look for their stolen tweets @[whoever]
After 24 hours, if they haven’t responded (and most won’t), go to their Twitter page and hit the “report for spam” link on the sidebar. That will block them and flag them for Twitter.
I recommend this for people who are very clearly reposting other people’s content. It’s usually very easy to tell by looking at a full page of someone’s tweets whether they are a “serial offender” or if they just happened to have had the same thought/joke that you had.
Whatever “currency” people have on Twitter is almost entirely based on reputation. If is a thieving douchebag, people are going to notice. They’re going to spread the word. And eventually they’re going to get blocked by enough people and fail to get enough attention that it’s not going to be worth it any more.
(And no I don’t expect Favstar to be the mediator of all things Twitter, but I’d hope at least that someone who is clearly just ripping others off — emphasis on clearly — would find themselves cut off from the Favstar ego pellets. But that’s really Tim’s decision.)
After you’ve done that? Let it roll off like water on a duck’s back, man. Life is too short. Like my father taught me at an early age:
Illegitimi non carborundum
(“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” Anyone who wants to cross-stitch that on a pillow or something for me, I’d gladly accept it :-)
I do not approve of this.
via thedailywhat
True story: I tried to get @beep to find this costume for me for the Twee Party last summer.
This made me laugh for a while.
Tiny Kara is unimpressed.
Kinda looking forward to waking up tomorrow.
you know it’s been a long day when you get into a dialogue inside your head with the Sunmaid Raisins girl.
Um… asking as someone who grew up on 40 acres of raisin vineyards outside of Fresno, California - when did they turn the Sunmaid Raisin chick into a Sims slut?
Early December, 2009, apparently.
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I’m just going to rename my account @shitmykidsays…
I wasn’t kidding, guys. They are… RIGHT…. THERE….
AHEM:
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MY PEOPLE.
(UPDATE:
@alisonagosti replied: “Uh. Your PERSON.”
Well, Alison… I guess someone you don’t know Daniel very well… dude has more Tumblrs than I do… ok, maybe not that many, but several…
APRIL 10TH. WE SHALL DUEL. THERE WILL BE NO MEATLOAF INVOLVED.
Who duels with meatloaf?
This had to have been taken 4-5 years ago. Oh, Aimee. You try too hard.
I was working for the US Postal Service. I hated it very, very much. It was mindless work. And stole my soul. And I felt very rebellious. So I pierced my lip one night. And got my hair chopped off and colored. And wore way too much eyeliner. And way too much black. And thought I was way cooler than I actually was.
Life is better when you embrace your dorkiness.
I would have bought a roll of stamps every day.
(Didya notice that everyone else posted awkward pictures and Aimee posted awesome pictures?)
jasonpermenter as jasonpermenter in:
“The Hippie Whisperer…”
Starring Jason Permenter as “The Dirty Hippie.”