November 2. So we get to the question of whether you can quote tweets without asking the tweeter for permission. That question would have been grotesque in the old public sphere, but in the new one it apparently has to be negotiated again. Similar questions arise when people delete their own tweets after a while, or soft-block someone because they don’t want them to read their public tweets. When I did my monthly twitter column for three years, no one complained about being quoted. But they did complain about me quoting people they didn’t like, or about their own tweet appearing in the same post as the tweet of someone they didn’t like.