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Tweet Theft

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+title: Tweet Theft
+type: bit
+status: confirmed
+aliases: [stealing tweets]
+sources:
+  - raw/news/bitcoin-pleb-astounded-after-dan-held-steals-his-tweat.json
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+**Tweet theft** is the Bugleverse crime of reposting a pleb's tweet as one's own, at scale, for engagement. It is prosecutable: the precedent case is *Plebs v. Held*, decided in Austin, TX in January 2023, in which a jury took ten minutes to convict [[characters/dan-held|Dan Held]] of stealing tweets from 1,000 separate individuals ([[news/bitcoin-pleb-astounded-after-dan-held-steals-his-tweat|Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations]]).
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+The remedy established by Judge Wilma Hightower is **tweet reparations**: the thief must supply each victim with a well thought out and creative tweet, boost its engagement using his own expertise, apologize publicly, and unblock his accusers. The ruling also established the affirmative defense of creative incapacity — Held was permitted to delegate compliance to his social media team after pleading that he lacks the creativity to do it himself.
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+See also: [[memes/engagement-farming|engagement farming]], the economic motive.
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+> irl: "Dan Held steals tweets" was a genuine running joke on Bitcoin Twitter; the court apparatus is the Bugle's.