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twitter shouldn't have deletion but it should have "disendorsement" or similar - tweet gets grayed out, "i no longer stand by this" but is still available as part of the public conversational historical record

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zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

· May 2

Twitter day! There was a thread I got stuff wrong *two years ago*. Great actual scientists reached out convinced me. Led to great collaborations! I deleted to avoid spreading falsehoods, but later wished I’d kept record. TIL rando dude saved *screenshots* to try dunk on me.

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

tweets are historical documents

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Apr 11

at the very least tweets should have a full public edit history or else you're just giving people license to rewrite the history of threads arbitrarily. the QT feature makes tweets *historical documents*, this should not be possible

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

May 2

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every place where screenshots get used on twitter is a place where twitter is missing a feature people need screenshots to maintain a historical record of tweets because twitter isn't doing it. similarly for using screenshots to multi-QT

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Apr 11

speaking of which, notice how awkwardly i had to use screenshots to get around the fact that i can't QT 3 tweets simultaneously which leads me to *my* feature request: multi-QTs. up to 4 at a time like images twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

May 2

ayyy

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Visa

SF (Aug 2-14)

@visakanv

· Jul 13, 2020

Would like a “disavow” feature, where I can “delete” a tweet (disable RT/QT) but leave it up for reference, and maybe add notes saying “when I tweeted this I was thinking X, but I didn’t notice Y, and furthermore Z”

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