They could also set it so you can see previous edits of the tweet, as facebook allows.
Hypothesis: Twitter could just let people edit tweets and it would be fine. Presumably they worry about edge cases like someone changing the meaning of a tweet completely after others retweet it. But only a few people would do that, and you'd learn not to retweet them.
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Hypothesis: They have shitton of read-optimized storage.
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Could be implemented similar to replies except it’s not a reply but a new version of a tweet
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People will only learn whose tweets not to retweet, only after retweeting them. The path to learn from your mistakes.
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Not a good idea. Twitter will lose a part of its soul.
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If people were only as rational as we think they are..
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They could impose a time limit for edits to be possible, like Hacker News does but shorter. Maybe 10 minutes
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or it could let users edit the tweets in a certain time frame after being published.
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In a world of fake news, that would be the perfect engine.
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Why not timeout the editing option after a while? Gives us the best of both worlds, quick to edit and slow to delete.
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Yes. Like a gmail undo button.
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