I don't mind what method one uses to cites one's sources but it should be done whenever one quotes another's words in any form of media. With the 140 character limit on Twitter this may be difficult but, as I used to say to my students, "plagiarism is stealing." Taking the words of another and passing them off as your own is unethical and should not be done even on Twitter.
When I wrote my post, "I'm into recycling" yesterday about Twitter etiquette I did not mention plagiarism. This morning I saw a thoughtful sentence posted on Twitter that did not sound like the language normally used by that tweeter. I put the sentence into Google and within a few seconds found that sentence on a genealogy blog post written yesterday. The tweeter in question was obviously also captivted by the sentence and shared it without attribution. It has been retweeted a couple of times with kudos going to the tweeter not the blogger who appears to be the original creator of this piece of text. I am now wondering about the credibility of the tweeter and the organisation this person represents.
I will now go into yesterday's post and add a piece about plagiarism.
Plagiarism does not belong on Twitter - "Keep Calm and Cite your Sources".
I too care about plagiarism. I don't tweet, so I'm not sure of the actual limits, but surely a tweeter could say "Seen on the Geniaus blog: the quote." That should fit the format and send people to a good blog site.
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