<story><title>Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics</title><url>http://www.erynnbrook.com/when-twitter-threads-fly-away/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>peterkelly</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;But I can’t support any product that aggregates content for profit and isn’t built from the principle of compensating and protecting content creators from the get-go&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is literally what twitter is.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;No, I don’t like screenshots of my threads being reposted on Facebook or Tumblr. I don’t like my tweets appearing in ad-filled listicles that someone got paid to write.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re going to speak publicly, and say something that attracts interest, this is inevitable. As shitty as &amp;quot;twitter journalism&amp;quot; is, at least they&amp;#x27;re providing correct attribution to the original author. This is how online discussions work, and I think that a rule that says you&amp;#x27;re not allowed to quote other people would be harmful to society.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter Thread Compiler Apps and Copyright Ethics</title><url>http://www.erynnbrook.com/when-twitter-threads-fly-away/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>techsupporter</author><text>I understand where the author is coming from; people absolutely should be paid for their labors and if other people are making money off of that, the first person should share in that.  Plus, there&amp;#x27;s definitely a desire for a creator--of any stripe--to want to have their creation viewed in the way that they originally created it.&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, and maybe this misses the point entirely, I absolutely loathe Twitter threads.  I wish every time someone felt compelled to write &amp;quot;Here&amp;#x27;s a deep and insightful look at that thing you read me to find out about. &amp;#x2F;thread,&amp;quot; the word &amp;quot;thread&amp;quot; would be replaced with a link to a long form post even if it had the same words.  Part of it is Twitter&amp;#x27;s UI (&amp;quot;oops, page reloaded, back to the top you go&amp;quot;) and part is&lt;p&gt;that it is&lt;p&gt;a little maddening to&lt;p&gt;read thoughts br&lt;p&gt;oken up into smaller&lt;p&gt;chunks and not&lt;p&gt;paragraphs.&lt;p&gt;That said, I agree more with my first paragraph than my second so I get it, and perhaps if I can&amp;#x27;t follow or respect the creator&amp;#x27;s wishes in how to consume the content that he or she created in the manner it was created, maybe I shouldn&amp;#x27;t consume it at all?</text></comment>