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I assume twitter will absolutely show a 'this tweet has been edited' button that brings up all the revisions of it, opens itself up to too much bait and switch

• rektide 5y ago
  This has been edited maybe, history doubtful. They've done the user centric research & every user says they want to be able to change what they say online & escape their bad mistakes. The team has resounding data pushing them this direction. And it will be immensely immensely detrimental to the platform/service/medium.
  • danso 5y ago
    The fact that users don't want their edit history visible is precisely why making it visible would be a useful tradeoff. Sure, you can fix your mistakes — but you have to balance whether the fix is worth sending up a flag (e.g. "This tweet has been edited") that may draw even more attention and scrutiny to the original tweet. It's like the "Hidden replies" feature [0]. Sure someone can maliciously use it to hide valid criticism. But in doing so, they're essentially doing a public curation of "these are the replies which really rankled me" [0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/twitter-rolls-out-its-hide-replies-feature-to-all-users-worldwide/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/21/twitter-rolls-out-its-hide...
• OJFord 5y ago
  The edit should just not affect existing likes & retweets? i.e. more like a built-in 'delete and re-post', but with preserved metrics.
  • aphistic 5y ago
    That wouldn't affect embeds, which is where a lot of abuse would likely come from.
    • OJFord 5y ago
      Why couldn't it?