I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd have to disagree. There is potentially more information that is contained in a tweet than Twitter re

I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd have to disagree. There is potentially more information that is contained in a tweet than Twitter republishes. For example, if I was posting a tweet using SMS the original publishing platform is my phone (it's saved onto it first) and then passed onto Twitter. Twitter then chooses to disregard the additional information contained within the entirity of a text message (the first 20 characters if memory serves me right, its been awhile since I looked up the specs). However, I'd argue those additional characters that Twitter disregards are copywritable as per the definition in the linked document. Listings of ingredients, as in recipes, labels, or formulas. When a recipe or formula is accompanied by an explanation or directions, the text directions may be copyrightable, but the recipe or formula itself remains uncopyrightable. The additional information contained in an SMS wold be akin to directions.