Look, you can have a lot of arguments for why Twitter shouldn't have an edit button. But geez, the technological complexity of building an edit button should not be one of them.
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I understand it can be complex, but Twitter is a $20 Billion company. They can do hard things.
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Honestly there really needs to be a Tech 101 class that all journos need to take.
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the tweets would have to lose all likes and retweets to avoid the spread of misinformation at a global scale. i.e. negative tweet about trump that gained a ton of traction being edited to positive tweet but still keeping the algorithm advantage from initial tweet
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If GitHub can do version control, so can the tweeter.
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If we have the technology to do git and svn, we should have the technology to edit tweet while preserving the original version of the tweet.
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