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Will there be an edit function? No? Still nothing like that in 2019? Well... twitter will go down. It's just a question of time at this point, imho.

fredsted 7y ago
What, because of no edit function?
- martin_a 7y ago
  Lack of innovation. I can edit my posts on all networks, except on twitter. One might consider this a unique feature, I think it's a unique mistake.
civicsquid 7y ago
That seems like a stretch. You can delete erroneous posts, reply to your own erroneous posts with corrections, or retweet with corrections. It's not like there's no way to correct yourself, you just need to be a bit more deliberate. It also arguably causes people to be a bit more conscious of what they're saying before they post too.
ungzd 7y ago
Immutability
- riffic 7y ago
  Twitter has built its data model around the tenet that tweet text is immutable. Edit is not going to happen. https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-editing-a-tweet-after-being-posted-to-the-timeline/answer/Raffi-Krikorian?srid=uMEx https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-...
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jfengel 7y ago
That's why people are attracted to Twitter: it's live. You get Twitter in real time, and you can't un-say what's been said. Even when people try, readers make screen caps. Typos and other mistakes just scroll past; readers have already moved on. They're still accessible, because the Internet never forgets, but it only retains focus when you've monumentally screwed up -- and even then only briefly. It's that living-in-the-moment feeling that has kept Twitter alive to this point, and if anything takes it down, it'll be by something that manages to be even harder to edit. Perhaps a live feed directly from your keyboard, or your mouth, or your camera -- or brain. If you don't want to participate in that, you stay off Twitter. I find it bizarre myself. I like to get my moment-to-moment experience from what's in front of my face. But that's very limiting, and a lot of people seem to prefer the stream of consciousness from the entire rest of the world.
- visarga 7y ago
  I use Twitter differently. I don't comment, rarely retweet something, and mostly just follow about 100 selected accounts. I care to know what certain people are up to in my field. What I hate about it is that you can't rest your mouse on anything. Everything is clickable, everything must be touched with care. I like 90% of the content to be plain text.
Qwertystop 7y ago
Lack of edits is an important anti-abuse feature. If you can edit a tweet, you can make a tweet saying one thing, and then edit it to say something entirely different after someone else retweets, links, or embeds it elsewhere.. (Though frankly, given how poorly they've handled other abuse-related issues, I doubt this is their reasoning)
- pier25 7y ago
  Should be feasible to show a list of edits and avoid that
- davidw 7y ago
  So give people 1 minute or something and maybe don't show it until that time period is up.
  - sneakernets 7y ago
    That would break the spontaneous nature of "live-tweeting".
- nradov 7y ago
  That's a silly argument. Facebook and all other blogging platforms allow editing posts. It isn't a real problem.
balaam 7y ago
I don't see why edit couldn't save the previous tweet and make it accessible from the edited one. That way you can link to the original if someone said something they're now trying to obscure. The replies could also be linked to the tweet they were replying to.

fredsted 7y ago

What, because of no edit function?

martin_a 7y ago
Lack of innovation. I can edit my posts on all networks, except on twitter. One might consider this a unique feature, I think it's a unique mistake.

civicsquid 7y ago

That seems like a stretch. You can delete erroneous posts, reply to your own erroneous posts with corrections, or retweet with corrections. It's not like there's no way to correct yourself, you just need to be a bit more deliberate. It also arguably causes people to be a bit more conscious of what they're saying before they post too.

ungzd 7y ago

Immutability

riffic 7y ago
Twitter has built its data model around the tenet that tweet text is immutable. Edit is not going to happen. https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-editing-a-tweet-after-being-posted-to-the-timeline/answer/Raffi-Krikorian?srid=uMEx https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-...

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jfengel 7y ago

That's why people are attracted to Twitter: it's live. You get Twitter in real time, and you can't un-say what's been said. Even when people try, readers make screen caps. Typos and other mistakes just scroll past; readers have already moved on. They're still accessible, because the Internet never forgets, but it only retains focus when you've monumentally screwed up -- and even then only briefly. It's that living-in-the-moment feeling that has kept Twitter alive to this point, and if anything takes it down, it'll be by something that manages to be even harder to edit. Perhaps a live feed directly from your keyboard, or your mouth, or your camera -- or brain. If you don't want to participate in that, you stay off Twitter. I find it bizarre myself. I like to get my moment-to-moment experience from what's in front of my face. But that's very limiting, and a lot of people seem to prefer the stream of consciousness from the entire rest of the world.

visarga 7y ago
I use Twitter differently. I don't comment, rarely retweet something, and mostly just follow about 100 selected accounts. I care to know what certain people are up to in my field. What I hate about it is that you can't rest your mouse on anything. Everything is clickable, everything must be touched with care. I like 90% of the content to be plain text.

Qwertystop 7y ago

Lack of edits is an important anti-abuse feature. If you can edit a tweet, you can make a tweet saying one thing, and then edit it to say something entirely different after someone else retweets, links, or embeds it elsewhere.. (Though frankly, given how poorly they've handled other abuse-related issues, I doubt this is their reasoning)

pier25 7y ago
Should be feasible to show a list of edits and avoid that
davidw 7y ago
So give people 1 minute or something and maybe don't show it until that time period is up.
- sneakernets 7y ago
  That would break the spontaneous nature of "live-tweeting".
nradov 7y ago
That's a silly argument. Facebook and all other blogging platforms allow editing posts. It isn't a real problem.

balaam 7y ago

I don't see why edit couldn't save the previous tweet and make it accessible from the edited one. That way you can link to the original if someone said something they're now trying to obscure. The replies could also be linked to the tweet they were replying to.