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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.
by 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 agoWhat would be the incentive to use that feature over just deleting the tweet?
- TeMPOraL 6y agoThere wouldn't be, therefore tweets shouldn't be deletable after a set period of time.
- pjc50 6y agoGiven 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 agoI'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 agoIntegrity or the appearance thereof -- showing that you're not trying to cover up your mistakes.