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Here's another one: "some of our old tweets were wrong so we just quietly deleted them lol": https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912 https://t

Here's another one: "some of our old tweets were wrong so we just quietly deleted them lol": https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912 https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1242537366620966912

airstrike 6y ago
Related https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff
gxon 6y ago
Twitter ought to have some kind of strikethrough feature. Allow users to mark that they no longer stand behind a tweet without completely deleting it.
- tommica 6y ago
  What would be the incentive to use that feature over just deleting the tweet?
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    There wouldn't be, therefore tweets shouldn't be deletable after a set period of time.
    - pjc50 6y ago
      Given that a British "journalist" lost her house to legal fees after libelling someone and refusing to take the tweet down, I think there are reasonable reasons to want to take down libellous, abusive, dangerous, or wrong tweets without having to sue Twitter. ("Journalist" is in quotes because, while that was her job title, she specialized in abuse, libel, smears, and calls to murder, and I'm glad she lost the libel case)
    - gxon 6y ago
      I'm not sure I like this for most users who don't have any kind of following or well developed sense of what is and is not appropriate to post. I do like this a lot for high profile accounts. It seems fair that if you're verified and have a very large number of followers, you are operating at a privileged level of impact and should lose your right to delete tweets any tweets.
  - retsibsi 6y ago
    Integrity or the appearance thereof -- showing that you're not trying to cover up your mistakes.
underwater 6y ago
This is necessary on Twitter. It's easy for fake or incorrect news to spread, you can't edit it and updates/self-replies are often hidden.
- dwaltrip 6y ago
  Sure, but they should also own up to their mistake. They flat out said "It won't be a deadly epidemic".
  - fireattack 6y ago
    They made a tweet to explicitly say they deleted it because it's wrong. How is that not "owning up"?
    - TeMPOraL 6y ago
      Properly owning up would include keeping the mistake up, so that people reading the apology would actually know what they're owning up to. Without the original Tweet, they might be apologizing for mistyping "2+2=4" as "2+2=5", for all you know.

airstrike 6y ago

Related https://twitter.com/nyt_diff https://twitter.com/nyt_diff

gxon 6y ago

Twitter ought to have some kind of strikethrough feature. Allow users to mark that they no longer stand behind a tweet without completely deleting it.

tommica 6y ago
What would be the incentive to use that feature over just deleting the tweet?
- TeMPOraL 6y ago
  There wouldn't be, therefore tweets shouldn't be deletable after a set period of time.
  - pjc50 6y ago
    Given that a British "journalist" lost her house to legal fees after libelling someone and refusing to take the tweet down, I think there are reasonable reasons to want to take down libellous, abusive, dangerous, or wrong tweets without having to sue Twitter. ("Journalist" is in quotes because, while that was her job title, she specialized in abuse, libel, smears, and calls to murder, and I'm glad she lost the libel case)
  - gxon 6y ago
    I'm not sure I like this for most users who don't have any kind of following or well developed sense of what is and is not appropriate to post. I do like this a lot for high profile accounts. It seems fair that if you're verified and have a very large number of followers, you are operating at a privileged level of impact and should lose your right to delete tweets any tweets.
- retsibsi 6y ago
  Integrity or the appearance thereof -- showing that you're not trying to cover up your mistakes.

underwater 6y ago

This is necessary on Twitter. It's easy for fake or incorrect news to spread, you can't edit it and updates/self-replies are often hidden.

dwaltrip 6y ago
Sure, but they should also own up to their mistake. They flat out said "It won't be a deadly epidemic".
- fireattack 6y ago
  They made a tweet to explicitly say they deleted it because it's wrong. How is that not "owning up"?
  - TeMPOraL 6y ago
    Properly owning up would include keeping the mistake up, so that people reading the apology would actually know what they're owning up to. Without the original Tweet, they might be apologizing for mistyping "2+2=4" as "2+2=5", for all you know.