Twitter -- allow people to edit their tweets and put a check on the levenshtein distance between the edit and the original tweet and make it remain in some value range so that spelling mistakes can be fixed but tweets can't be radically changed.
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If I have to predict, it will just be a linked list to the previous edits (i.e. still immutable tweets, but the UI will be dressed up to make it look like a edit with history) There must be some scalability reason for why twitter doesn't want to allow edit
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Maybe it would invalidate their cache in some way that would require significant architectural / code changes to fix?
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Would still allow people to remove/add key words, wouldn't it?
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It certainly could. Although I think a few additional tweaks could nail down something workable. The big issue would be things like slipping in a "'t" or "not" to totally change the meaning of the tweet.
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This is the best suggestion I've heard for edits, although I think the need for edits in the face of typos is itself a bit overblown. It's a casual communication medium, typos happen.
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True. Good point about the whole tech "just because we can, doesn't mean we should" argument.
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I suspect that many 'conditionally edit tweet' PRDs at twitter.com have died on the hill of Policy and Legal.
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Removing the word "no" or "not" is a pretty small typo that makes a huge semantic difference, and that's just for English.
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