The beauty of 140 characters... When is short too short for copyright?
I'm pretty sure that Fluther's TOS doesn't apply here since Mahalo never used the site.
I'm pretty sure that Fluther's TOS doesn't apply here since Mahalo never used the site.
If you tweeted a haiku and if that haiku later appeared in a book of poetry without your attribution, would that be okay?
If you wanted to give up the rights to your words, you could use something like tweetCC (http://tweetcc.com/) to apply a Creative Commons license to your tweets.
Jobenjo has a point about haiku -- but questions will seldom be recognized as poetry.
Indeed, as a question gets better as a question, more concise and precise, it becomes more like a pure idea, or a strictly functional communicative construct. You can't assert a copyright on those.
Whether you can copyright text as short as 140 characters is at least debatable-- it may be that nobody holds copyright over tweets.