A friend just told me a joke. I tweeted it. Apparently I’m supposed to credit the originator. I deleted the tweet. Good luck.
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I have never credited a joke ever. Did your friend write the joke or repeat a joke they heard? Unless it's someone's original content, it's fair game.
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You know, not for nothing, but you’re supposed to credit the person who told you you’re supposed to credit the originator.
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Gary Garrels just told me!
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Threads could be used in the future as space for credits and footnotes for tweets. Even the briefest tweet could be like “infinite jest” - trailing its credits and references beneath it like seaweed beneath a ship.
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I've been thinking about this, authorship in the age of social media. I hear a joke at a party & I tell it at the next one. No one would ask where I heard this joke. But if I tell the same joke on Twitter, now someone had written it first, so credit must go to them. Interesting.
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You will be served in the morning for stealing many of my jokes. Be ready.
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