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A time or engagement based restriction would prevent this, i.e. having 3-5 minutes to edit the tweet, at which point the edit button is locked. Revision history
by siruva07 6y ago
A time or engagement based restriction would prevent this, i.e. having 3-5 minutes to edit the tweet, at which point the edit button is locked. Revision history would still show. "Undo Send" a la Gmail, but for tweets.
- user-the-name 6y agoBut if the tweet has only been live for a few minutes, you might as well delete and repost.
- ajanuary 6y ago"Revision history would still show" Except in a distributed system like Twitter (including client and server) there is no single timeline, and amateur digital forensics will erroneously say "aha, but you retweeted it before it was edited"
- Spivak 6y agoAs long as RTs and likes are tied to a specific version of the Tweet then it's no real problem.
- kristiandupont 6y agoPerhaps, but you are talking about creating rather complex machinery in order to support a tiny feature. If the only argument in favor is engagement statistics (would those take edits into consideration as well?), I certainly see why Twitter doesn't care too much.