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The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics

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Re: The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics

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1.3 million followers, eh? Aaannd my headlines-from-1914 bot has 11 followers. tl;dr I suppose.

Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

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Di Petta's flip attitude towards copyright is contemptible. But it's true that it is often impractical to get information about creators and rights. I wonder part of the solution isn't some service that decreased the friction (by a lot) for looking up the relevant information. (As I'm typing this I realize this probably isn't a new thought.)

> Di Petta's flip attitude towards copyright is contemptible. But it's true that it is often impractical to get information about creators and rights. It sometimes is. Time and again, people have checked the pair's featured pictures and found sources in a few minutes.

I totally agree. And again I don't want to excuse their behavior.

But it being inconsistently easy to find a source and copyright information is also a problem that it would be nice to have solved. That there's a lot of variance in this process is itself a disincentive to engaging in it.

It would be beneficial for everyone if, in general, finding sources was as easy as finding the images to begin with. There's no in principle reason (or is there?) why technology has to make content discovery easy and source discovery difficult, it just is that way right now.

Re: The Two Teenagers Who Run the Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics

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This: "The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don't pay or even credit . They don't provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs. " Combined with this: "I'm sure the majority of photographers would be glad to have their work seen by the massives." Nothing 'new…

> Theft plain and simple.

Well, no, not plain and simple. At the worst, it's copyright infringement.

You may think this is a pedantic correction, and from your point of view, maybe it is. But it isn't for people who see intellectual property as unjust.

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Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

On the contrary! You need to post links to these articles.

I want to read all of those articles.

I absolutely love the history leading up to and around the first world war, I've read a good portion of the issues of Punch from those years. But a headline is only enough to arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.

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Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

The subject of your headlines is critical in my opinion. European news, or Americain centered, International? Popular news? Headlines that turned out very wrong, etc etc. There are so many subjects...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

On the contrary! You need to post links to these articles. I want to read all of those articles. I absolutely love the history leading up to and around the first world war, I've read a good portion of the issues of Punch from those years. But a headline is only enough to arouse my appetite without bedding her back down.

Well, you can find the articles by googling the headlines. These are all from the New York Times and you should find the first result is a link to a pdf article there.

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This: "The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of photographers who they don't pay or even credit . They don't provide sources for the photographs or the captions that accompany them. Sometimes they get stuff wrong and/or post copyrighted photographs. " Combined with this: "I'm sure the majority of photographers would be glad to have their work seen by the massives." Nothing 'new…

> Theft plain and simple. Well, no, not plain and simple. At the worst, it's copyright infringement. You may think this is a pedantic correction, and from your point of view, maybe it is. But it isn't for people who see intellectual property as unjust.

No no, your right. I should have know better. My old company, Royalty Free Models, used to sell regular people for commercial photoshoots. I sold them with all rights included like a ShutterStock database with actual people. Even agency's don't understand copyrights...

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

The subject of your headlines is critical in my opinion. European news, or Americain centered, International? Popular news? Headlines that turned out very wrong, etc etc. There are so many subjects...

They're from the New York Times. The focus appears to be in order NY, America, Whoever America Is Currently Fighting, Europe, and the rest of the world. Plenty of amusing missed predictions (e.g. VESUVIUS MORE ACTIVE.: Mr Burlingham Says Volcano is Preparing for Another Eruption. - 01/13/14). July is going to be interesting....

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Well, it would help if you added your Twitter handle when saying something like that. Like the idea actually.

I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

Is this curated at all? It seems like 10% interesting, 90% very boring articles.

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I posted about it here before. It may be too dry, but I find it quite entertaining. https://twitter.com/NEWS_XX14

Is this curated at all? It seems like 10% interesting, 90% very boring articles.

Nope. If it was curated it wouldn't be much of a bot. That's how most bots are, the owners just retweet the really good ones.

One idea would be to focus on certain keywords, but you'd miss a lot of interesting stuff.

I don't know if I agree on your percentages though. In the first 3 days, I read stuff about eugenics, Shackleton, a woman declaring martial law on a town (first time martial law had been declared since Civil War), etc.

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