I guess it's so that you can't retweet a view just to have its meaning completely altered afterwards
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Just reset all likes and RTs after editing.
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That's a good idea.
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FB shows a history of the edits so you can still see the original post. Twitter should do the same.
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I think they want to avoid having lots of people liking and sharing, and then the original totally changes meaning, and all people are tricked into looking like fools. This has happened many times on Facebook.
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You can see all previous edits of a post on FB. It works well for what most people use edits for, fixing typos.
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Make it the version at the time you RT that is forever shared.
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Been saying they should just permit editing up until the tweet is engaged with
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Or just allow a “ninja edit” like Reddit has. You have just a few minutes to make edits unabated. Helps with trivial spelling errors, etc.
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Think before you tweet
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Yeah that's not happening.
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It's annoying, but I wouldn't want to miss out on Covfefe
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Editing tweets is a bad idea. You don’t want someone tricking people that interacted with the tweet.
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Could easily have a 'history button' such as Facebook's 'edited' button. Could show the likes/Retweet changes from when the edit was made, etc.
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I agree, but I think they do not want to have the additional storage overhead. Knowing this, I believe it makes Twitter more immediate, while at the same time reminding the user to think twice before they tweet. Not that it will always happen.
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I always assumed the main reason was cutting costs on storage. If anything, it's a plausible feature to add if they wanted.
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I'd guess that storage costs are not a big factor. I think Twitter is just being true to their original design philosophy. Tweets aren't wiki pages, they're blurts into the ether.
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I mean, the platform isn't making money. I can see that possibility, though. If anything, it causes people to tweet even more with corrections, or better yet, causes users to call out tweets.
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Yes, that may be so. To quote
@peterford “Tweets aren't wiki pages, they're blurts into the ether.” I imagine that few people on FB ever bother to look at apost’s edit history and would expect it to be the same on Twitter. In a sense, Twitter is a live conversation.
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