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Besides technical reaosns, it could be to avoid bait-and-switch schemes, where a lot of engagement is built around one headline, and then it's changed to someth

Besides technical reaosns, it could be to avoid bait-and-switch schemes, where a lot of engagement is built around one headline, and then it's changed to something with a completely different meaning.

TwelveNights 4y ago
I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.
- jedberg 4y ago
  I think it twitter's case it was architectural. By treating tweets as immutable the could publish them on a pipeline and not worry about duplicate copies around the system being out of sync.
  - mattnewton 4y ago
    That and early on it used sms as one of the interfaces, which is not editable.
    - jedberg 4y ago
      They could always send another SMS with the edit. :) But yes, that too. The whole system was designed around SMS which couldn't be "unsent".
- fortran77 4y ago
  It's to prevent tweeting "LIKE this if you like Ice Cream" and then editing it to say "LIKE this if you like pedophilia" Nobody would ever Like/Retweet anything if it could be changed later.