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Lots of top-level comments talking about how it's common for newspapers, blogs, basically any _other_ type of web-page to allow edits. Sites like reddit and HN

Lots of top-level comments talking about how it's common for newspapers, blogs, basically any _other_ type of web-page to allow edits. Sites like reddit and HN also allow edits in certain contexts/timeperiods. I think these are missing how Twitter is different and how this is a Pandora's box. You can't stop allowing edits, and it will fundamentally change how the platform operates. I think it has a high potential for mis-use and abuse. Currently tweets are, if anything screen-shotted and edited. But if you have a link to the tweet itself, it operates as a source of truth. I can't say I like this change.

lprd 5y ago
It would be neat if there could be a button to show the original tweet if it was edited - or better yet, show a comparison of what changed much like git.
sushibowl 5y ago
> Sites like reddit and HN also allow edits in certain contexts/timeperiods On Reddit and HN it is also commonly considered etiquette to have append-only comments, writing "EDIT:" in front of the addition to make it clear to readers what is going on. Moreover, reddit indicates in the GUI that a comment has been edited, unless you do it very quickly. Kind of like a git commit, changing a comment that people have already read is considered undesirable. Reddit also stopped allowing edits of post titles, because it was subject to too much abuse. Twitter is going to face similar problems.
- llbeansandrice 5y ago
  I'm not aware of a time reddit ever allowed editing of post titles and I've been on the platform for...almost a decade (yikes). Was that something they allowed very early on?
  - robbyking 5y ago
    No, it's comments only.
BeFlatXIII 5y ago
> if you have a link to the tweet itself, it operates as a source of truth. Until it gets deleted, at which point only screenshots and archive sites *may* be available (or it's totally lost if no one thought to save it)

lprd 5y ago

It would be neat if there could be a button to show the original tweet if it was edited - or better yet, show a comparison of what changed much like git.

sushibowl 5y ago

> Sites like reddit and HN also allow edits in certain contexts/timeperiods On Reddit and HN it is also commonly considered etiquette to have append-only comments, writing "EDIT:" in front of the addition to make it clear to readers what is going on. Moreover, reddit indicates in the GUI that a comment has been edited, unless you do it very quickly. Kind of like a git commit, changing a comment that people have already read is considered undesirable. Reddit also stopped allowing edits of post titles, because it was subject to too much abuse. Twitter is going to face similar problems.

llbeansandrice 5y ago
I'm not aware of a time reddit ever allowed editing of post titles and I've been on the platform for...almost a decade (yikes). Was that something they allowed very early on?
- robbyking 5y ago
  No, it's comments only.

BeFlatXIII 5y ago

> if you have a link to the tweet itself, it operates as a source of truth. Until it gets deleted, at which point only screenshots and archive sites *may* be available (or it's totally lost if no one thought to save it)