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Author of The End of Faith, The Moral Landscape, Waking Up, and other bestselling books published in over 20 languages. Host of the Waking Up podcast.

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    Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg Feb 4

    Interesting that one can edit Facebook posts but not tweets. Why is that? @jack

    9:52 AM - 4 Feb 2018
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      2. Stephen Knight‏ @GSpellchecker Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        I guess it's so that you can't retweet a view just to have its meaning completely altered afterwards

        14 replies 2 retweets 124 likes
      3. jansen0815‏ @jansen0815 Feb 4
        Replying to @GSpellchecker @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        Just reset all likes and RTs after editing.

        10 replies 1 retweet 44 likes
      4. Sam Harris‏Verified account @SamHarrisOrg Feb 4
        Replying to @jansen0815 @GSpellchecker @jack

        That's a good idea.

        12 replies 0 retweets 48 likes
      5. Jett Lynn-Lato‏ @Jettlynnlato Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jansen0815 and

        FB shows a history of the edits so you can still see the original post. Twitter should do the same.

        1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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      2. Niklas Lundberg‏ @datgame Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        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.

        2 replies 1 retweet 32 likes
      3. Abraham F.‏ @inkredibleHAK99 Feb 4
        Replying to @datgame @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        You can see all previous edits of a post on FB. It works well for what most people use edits for, fixing typos.

        2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes
      4. Kevin Hall‏ @khall13 Feb 4
        Replying to @inkredibleHAK99 @datgame and

        Make it the version at the time you RT that is forever shared.

        1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
      5. Alex Van Wey‏ @AlexVanWey Feb 4
        Replying to @khall13 @datgame and

        Been saying they should just permit editing up until the tweet is engaged with

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      6. altoidnerd‏ @AltoidNerd Feb 4
        Replying to @AlexVanWey @khall13 and

        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.

        0 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      7. End of conversation
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      2.  🌼OopseeDaisy‏ @oopseedaisy123 Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        Think before you tweet

        3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      3. James Britt  🎧 music.jamesbritt.com‏ @jamesbritt Feb 4
        Replying to @oopseedaisy123 @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        Yeah that's not happening. 😵

        0 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
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      1. Scarlett  🖤‏ @ScarlettHey1978 Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        It's annoying, but I wouldn't want to miss out on Covfefe 😊

        0 replies 0 retweets 14 likes
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      2. Jerad Maplethorpe‏ @Maplethorpej Feb 4
        Replying to @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        Editing tweets is a bad idea. You don’t want someone tricking people that interacted with the tweet.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Jarred Douthit‏ @JDohDev Feb 4
        Replying to @Maplethorpej @SamHarrisOrg @jack

        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.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Paolo Bramucci‏ @PBram57 Feb 4
        Replying to @JDohDev @Maplethorpej and

        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.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Jarred Douthit‏ @JDohDev Feb 4
        Replying to @PBram57 @Maplethorpej and

        I always assumed the main reason was cutting costs on storage. If anything, it's a plausible feature to add if they wanted.

        2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      6. Peter Ford‏ @ptfrd Feb 4
        Replying to @JDohDev @PBram57 and

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. Jarred Douthit‏ @JDohDev Feb 4
        Replying to @ptfrd @PBram57 and

        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.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Paolo Bramucci‏ @PBram57 Feb 4
        Replying to @JDohDev @ptfrd and

        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.

        0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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