I just got done posting a story on Ghost Tweeting and while doing the research for this article I came across something that I still find disturbing. It's been done for years, centuries I am sure but the proliferation of stealing of content is disturbing. I did a search for Kirstie Alley's Twittervention and this is what came up:
The most disturbing part of this search is that 6 of the ten stories listed were the EXACT same story. MSN's story listed Splash News as the author on April 12th. Zimbio posted the article and claims it was written by Celebrity News Now on April 11th. The number one site in the search just posted the article on June 8th, but the do cite Splash news as the author. CelebEdge posted the article as if it were their own - No author listed. I could go on and on.
These were the exact same articles with the exact same picture. Not only are they stealing content, devaluing the author but they are spreading ugly pictures of one of my favorite celebs Kirstie Alley. Can't these content managers change it up a little? Make the story their own? Do a little research? This article has taken me approximately 17 minutes so far.
Where is the originality? and why oh why can't the post a beautiful pic of Kirstie? 
total writing, research and pic searching time 29 minutes
ARRGGGH Give me some original content please…..
