Well those people recognize the problem with letting people change their words indefinitely, but do see the value an edit button brings in fixing grammatical er

Well those people recognize the problem with letting people change their words indefinitely, but do see the value an edit button brings in fixing grammatical errors. A pretty reasonable feature I do admit. But the amount of bellyaching over this by many is not because people want grammatical errors in their tweets but because it has the potential to totally alter how twitter is a primary source record of public statements, and words can be possibly changed over time and thus the connotation/dennotations of those statements can change. Given how much political discussion takes place on twitter and how much of it about how someone said something stupid, that could be a huge shift in the platform's usage.