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 sounded just like Jack when I was learning to code Friend: what if you let users do x? Me: they can't Friend: why? Me: look, I have a vision, the constraints serve it, let's just slow our roll here buddy Me, to myself: it's a trashfire, your code is a fucking trashfire
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"move fast and break things" "sweet that's totally us our shit breaks constantly and we're patching patched patches at the speed of fukkin LIIIGHT over here at twitter dot com"
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freshly observed artifact from the patchwork: NOV 6 (MORNING) patchmonkey drunken-macgyvered up an autoban to stop people trolling about vote deadlines (you can go tomorrow / thru saturday if you X / "remember to v*te by the 7th!" etc) 1/2
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(2/2) V LATE NOV 6 & EARLY NOV 7 (POLLS VERY CLOSED) - thousands of convos from ppl who forgot, skipped, gave up, fell asleep, etc - turns out a common joke to make might be something like "i heard you can still v*ote tomorrow lol" - [user was banned for this post] x1000
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They could just add an edit history, as FB has done, to preserve the record.
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...on the blockchain
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Counterpoint: USA is a $500 trillion dollar country.
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Edit should be available until the first action on a tweet, be it a like, retweet, or comment. Then it becomes permanent.
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Lol...I worked at slack...edits certainly add complexity but I’m sure a thousand strong engineering team at least has a couple peeps who can figure it out
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They could figure out for sure. Slack have fairly limited number of user to update when a user edited a message. Edits also isolated on single workspace. On Twitter, everyone is in a single "workspace". So it's different problem. Not to mention those legacy code

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Heh it’s actually a bit more complicated than that but im not really at liberty to explain why. if you want to find out you should totally apply for a job
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And doesn’t twitter go in the library of Congress per gnip as well?
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Most of the engineering time is spent trying to socially engineer the country and influence thought so everyone thinks like they do. So not as much time for this.
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"We wanted flying cars, but we got an edit button. Just kidding we didn't even get one of those."
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Chronological timeline says otherwise
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Sounds like a problem some
@LambdaSchool grads can fix. How about it@jack and@TwitterThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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26 billion. should probably be higher honestly. will probably buy some more. Twitter is world history at this point, it’s not going away anytime soon.
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Spending time on a feature that has the potential to increase abuse isn’t worth it. If you think an edit button is good see the Elon Musk crypto scams, people fall for it everyday.
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Twitter also has a ton of smart people working for them. They will work out how to execute on the edit button.
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