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I don’t like to make a big deal out of people stealing tweets. It’s annoying and frustrating when it happens. I have a low opinion of people who do it, but I have little interest in going after people when it happens.

Yes, my tweets get stolen from time to time. More often than I even bother to pay attention to. I usually laugh it off. I’m flattered by it. It’s usually by someone with a hundred or so followers. They’re not people who are trying to generate their own content, they’re usually just sharing stupid jokes and links with their friends. It happens. I get it. Whatever. No big deal.

Hell, I’d been plagiarized long before Twitter even existed.

But I’m human. When I wake up to get ready for work and the first thing I see when I sit down at my computer is my own joke stolen by someone I don’t know who a) follows me, b) has a few thousand followers, c) has a Favstar link in their profile and d) clearly knows how the retweet button, I can’t help but feel a little pissy and moany about it. This is a person who, I would think, should know better.

To add insult to insult, again this is someone I don’t even know who follows me – so apparently I’m interesting enough to follow and steal from, but not interesting enough to star or retweet?!

The spoils of Twitter (for the majority of us, anyway) aren’t exactly fame and fortune. Most of us are here trying to have a little fun with it. Our only reward is the occasional kind word, a few laughs, a retweet here and there, and a few extra followers if we’re lucky. I also like using it to improve my writing abilities and organize my thoughts better.

There are some people, though, who seem to exist purely to suck the fun out of it for others.

Okay, sorry. Rant over. I should be in a good mood again sometime after lunch.

Keep stealing my tweets. I’ll make more.