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I assume they've done the market research that shows enough people will pay for this to make it worthwhile. Surely?

• groffee 4y ago
  Does it even matter? An edit button is literally 5 minutes of any decent engineers time. It's just boggling that a company (apparently) worth $44 billion just doesn't even have BASIC functionality.
  • missedthecue 4y ago
    I mean... the not to have added it all this time is clearly not one based on the engineering difficulties associated with implementing it.
    • fortran77 4y ago
      I think they were worried more about the disruption. I don't want to "like" or "retweet" something that can change later. You'll like (for example): "Does everyone love ice cream" and then it will be edited to "Does everyone love pedophilia?" NO thank you. Edits are not a good feature.
  • Arnt 4y ago
    Three minutes for the HTML change, one minute for the code to invalidate the caches, and at most one to handle what happens when someone replies or quotes the old tweet while the edited one replaces it.