it's absolutely ridiculous that you can't add alt after posting. Which is usually around the time I remember to.
But then this is from the platform that thinks an edit button is just way too radical.
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Edit button would so be abused. Even here. E.g. to make it look like folks liked something hateful, or use their RT for reach, by recontextualizing it with new alt text or just adding unrelated bad alt text.
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That would probably suffice, but I'm not sure. Folks who deal with this stuff being weaponized all the time would be better qualified to answer that. But do you really think Twitter would get this right and do "edit history"? I don't think any other social media platforms do...
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Prominently showing edit history where you can easily see all past versions of the tweet would help. It would be hard to make a good enough UI. They could mark it even more prominent on retweets by showing that the person retweeted an older version of the tweet. It's not trivial.
It would be just as important to put a short time limit on editing. That would greatly limit abuse since by the time tweets became viral you wouldn't be able to abuse them as a way to broadcast hate, to sell as an advertising space, etc. Other restrictions could help too.
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I think they could do it in a way that wouldn't be super easy to abuse. I'd prefer not having the feature over having yet another tool for people to use in an unethical way. Engagement-driven timeline, suggested topics/tweets and quote tweets already encourage lots of awfulness.
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