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Edit seems much harder to implement. This basically adds some metadata to the Tweet model instead of embedding it within the body text. That's a change and it n
by krschultz 10y ago
Edit seems much harder to implement. This basically adds some metadata to the Tweet model instead of embedding it within the body text. That's a change and it needs to be implemented all over, but it is pretty backwards compatible.
It seems that one of the fundamental assumptions is that Tweets are immutable. Changing that could break all kinds of things and would probably their systems significantly more complicated.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoEven Facebook has an edit feature for a long time now with a revision history of posts/comments. No issues of abuse. This isn't rocket science.
- dec0dedab0de 10y agoFacebook has had abuse from pages that got likes, and then later changed their title and purpose.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoYou can do this on any social media though.
- danso 10y agoFacebook posts aren't as public-facing by default. AFAIK there's no FB equivalent to the retweet, in that the content of a FB share is not quite the same as the relation between a retweet and the original tweet.
- mgiannopoulos 10y agoYou can do a share with zero added text = retweet You can also do a share of a link post keeping "the original post"
- riffic 10y agoHashtags and @-replies could also theoretically be moved from the message body and into metadata fields.