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		brudgers on Jan 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Twe... I think the term of art in this case is "retweet".

shiro on Jan 6, 2016 [–]

Sadly it is pretty common that someone copy & paste some witty tweet and get attention. There's even a service to discover that. In Japanese it is called pakutsui (pakuri (= plagiarism) + tsui (= tweet)).

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