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> I would think that a big problem here is to only allow correcting typos, not changing meaning of a tweet - which would suck for a public, fast-paced platform
by kyrofa 5y ago
> I would think that a big problem here is to only allow correcting typos, not changing meaning of a tweet - which would suck for a public, fast-paced platform like twitter.
I feel like GitHub already solved that problem by showing an edit history on comments. Twitter could do the same thing.
Even easier: don't actually publish tweets for 60 seconds, during which time they can be edited.
- zerocrates 5y agoHaving a time where it's not actually posted would work fine but probably not be super effective: after all, you already have an unlimited amount of time to look at the message sitting on your screen before you actually send it. It's just often very hard to read your own writing for typos. Still it would be a step forward. You could even make it opt-in.
- kyrofa 5y agoHaha, I swear every time I wish I could edit a tweet it's within 5 minutes after I post it. To be fair, at least with my incredibly limited followers, that's soon enough I can just delete it and post it again without losing too much engagement, but still. I'm just not patient enough to proof-read properly, apparently.
- pantalaimon 5y agoHow about a preview then?
- afavour 5y agoFacebook already has similar edit functionality and I’m curious how many users click through to see the edits. I’ll be the number is not high. The speed Twitter moves I think a lot more people are going to mash the retweet button than the “see edits” button.
- pantalaimon 5y agoAlso will all the retweets be edited as well or do you retweet a snapshot?
- isiahl 5y agoFacebooks edit history is also hidden in grey text next to the timestamp. I bet putting a "This tweet has been edited" notice actually inline with the content would be effective.
- kyrofa 5y agoExactly my thought.
- xeromal 5y agoNo one would actually look at that though. You need to cater to the masses or make it exceedingly obvious
- kyrofa 5y agoIt would make it easy to call out anything nefarious, though.
- zimpenfish 5y agoOne place I used to frequent solved this by disallowing editing of the original content but allowing the author to add a small annotation after the fact. Doesn't really fix the "correcting typos directly" issue but does allow for clarifications, etc., without the possibility of changing the original meaning that people may have RT/QT/etc. (You could also extend this to allowing the annotation to be added to a run of text and shove it in the entities object for extra clarity / highlighting.)