Let's rephrase the question: can you copyright aphorisms? Because Tweets are no different than other bodies of written work except for their length. The author

Let's rephrase the question: can you copyright aphorisms? Because Tweets are no different than other bodies of written work except for their length. The author seems to pick out a bunch of straw-men, or, ahem, straw-tweets if you like, to point out as un-copyrightable. He then moves on to say that he has yet to see a single copyrightable tweet. It would be more interesting if he picked out genuinely interesting tweets and argued why even they didn't pass muster. Yeah, you can't copyright facts. But you can copyright certain stylized restatements of facts. You're copyrighting the specific and unique utterance, not the fact itself. The author even concedes that you could possibly copyright a tweet if it was a haiku. I've seen plenty of tweets that embody the same kind of concise harmony as haikus.