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Adding an edit button is a “one way door”. Better be sure about it before you roll that out, because there is no going back. Maybe this will be an unpopular o
by bsuvc 5y ago
Adding an edit button is a “one way door”.
Better be sure about it before you roll that out, because there is no going back.
Maybe this will be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think Twitter should do it. I don’t see people leaving Twitter because of this occasional inconvenience.
It seems like there is little upside for Twitter doing this, and there is potential for misuse. People are already used to how tweets work and are mostly satisfied.
I prefer knowing that something I already read (and potentially liked) will not be changed later. If the author wants to make a change, it is easy enough to delete and tweet again, or just reply to your own tweet saying “whoops, I left out this word” or whatever.
- devnull3 5y agoI think edit option only for 1-2 min on creation of tweet might not be such a bad option. I have myself found wanting this feature to fix grammer or typo or forgot to add a certain #hashtag, etc
- dbbk 5y agoWhy not just delete it and re-post then?
- devnull3 5y agoSo Deletion & repost will look like: 1. Copy the old tweet content 2. Delete the tweet 3. Start creating new the tweet (but not finalized) 4. Paste the content 5. Edit the content 6. Finalize the tweet (equivalent of Submit button) VS Edit will look like: 1. Press edit 2. Edit the content 3. Finalize (or Submit)
- skybrian 5y agoCould you explain why they couldn't turn it off again? It's not obvious to me.
- djhn 5y agoNot the original commenter but I guess depending on the implementation many edits might have already been made. Are those rolled back as well? What about tweets that reference the edited tweets, which might not make sense now?