This seems so obvious to me - I can't believe anyone thinks the edit button would be a net positivehttps://twitter.com/biochembelle/status/1154409465367523328?s=20 …
I’m baffled right along side you here. What is everyone thinking?? YouTube doesn’t allow you to edit videos, SMTP doesn’t allow you to edit emails, and Twitter shouldn’t allow you to edit tweets. This is good.
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Yeah...given how easy it is to do, I just delete and repost if necessary. The main use case I see is preserving your likes and RTs, but that's precisely the situation where editing would cause a lot of problems! (and particularly the types of problems ppl want Twitter to solve)
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Actually YouTube is starting to allow us to edit videos. I think this is a good thing. I think editing should be fully enabled there, and here, along with an obvious “edited” tag like on facebook comments and a viewable edit history.
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On reddit there’s a robust culture of labelling the edits you make to a post. I think that could apply here. There’d need to be community guidelines in terms of “re-editing viral tweet to be an ad” or whatever, but I’m sure it could be done
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As suggested by (I think)
@Aelkus, edit button + "click to see the cached original version of this tweet". Or a time limit on editing. Or both.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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A better alternative would be a no-archive policy like the kind Quora has
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