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This article deals with two literary works that appropriate tweets: “I wish I could be exactly what you are looking for” by Jean-Baptiste Michel and “Working on my Novel” by Cory Arcangel. This article questions the issues that surround appropriative practices in art and literature in the digital age. The artworks are also seen as entry points for questioning the power relations present in the structuring of the expression of social network users, which the decontextualization of tweets gives us the opportunity to study. They also allow us to reflect on what we call the “attentional fringe oligopoly” of social networks, a structure that aims to reflect the distribution of the attentional capital of internet users.