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 Dan Held of stealing tweets from 1,000 separate individuals (Dan Held Ordered By Judge To Pay Reparations).

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.

See also: engagement farming, the economic motive.

irl: “Dan Held steals tweets” was a genuine running joke on Bitcoin Twitter; the court apparatus is the Bugle’s.