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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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.
And if I tell a joke at a party, no one assumes I wrote it, but on Twitter, it seems to be the first assumption. Maybe it has to do with how public it is.
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my fervent hope is that this thread can continue to proliferate, expand and spark debate, all without ever actually referencing the original joke:)
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I credit all my jokes to Samuel Beckett. Saves time, and discourages backtalk.
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