“Well, the tweets themselves are embedded in the article, but people who copy/paste the article cannot copy the tweets. So they also include the text of the tweet in the body of the article itself.”
Hmmm...I don’t recall seeing the double-posting of comments quoted from other sources. Maybe that’s because Twitter is so ubiquitous that it crowds out other sources...or is it some law unique to Twitter?
I think it’s unique to twitter because of the way tweets get embedded.
You’ll see some articles where they only embed the tweets and don’t quote them. In that case, when copied to a site like FR, the article will read something like:
“Yesterday, Famous Person #1 tweeted:
and then Famous Person #2 replied:
-——”
And you have no idea what either said unless you click the link to read the original article. So some places both embed the tweet and put a quote of the text of the tweet in the article itself.
But in this case it looks like whoever transcribed the article for FR also included a transcription of the tweets along with the quotes of the tweets.