*gasp* Twitter will soon offer an edit button
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Great, that's more work for us who work with the Twitter API...
You can't just import tweets willy-nilly now and assume they're immutable.
Just great!
Ah I didn't think about that. Hopefully, it'll be a time-sensitive edit button.
I'm not in favor of an edit button. Call my crazy, but I think it's more interesting when someone can't edit their post. When you don't have an edit button you also need to be way more conscientious about what your posting.
I understand opinions and ideas change, and people want to update their tweets, but that just takes away the most interesting aspect of the site: that people are giving their opinions and whatever they write is written in stone and they need to deal with the repercussions of it, good or bad.
There are plenty of times I've written something that I thought was terrible, posted it, and thought it'd get no responses. Then all of a sudden it takes off.
People are bad judges of their own writing and work. If they can keep editing their posts, they may misjudge their work and constantly revise it.
My god I just started a twitter account for a project I'm launching soon and I was so frustrated I didn't have an edit button hahaha. I kept on thinking I could've improved my posts. Didn't have a personal account before so I didn't know how it worked.
But after getting a bit used to it, I think it's better not to have an edit button. Makes it more real. If you don't like what you said just delete it instead of acting like it was always good :)
Yeah I thought twitter's April 1st post about the edit button was just that... a joke.
Edit button likely means your edit history is also open, which is clunkier, and potentially more awkward than just deleting and reposting. Do people even think this through?
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Haha maybe we could form a DAO to get some other changes 🤣
This is undoubtedly the most requested feature for Twitter.
Is this the Musk effect? Why now?
Interesting take from the WSJ too on how it might be a slippery slope. wsj.com/articles/twitters-edit-button-isnt-just-a-simple-fix-it-could-be-a-mistake-11649309719
Edit button with 15 mins as the limit would be perfect. Whatsapp already do this for deleting messages. You can delete whatsapp messages FOR ALL only within 7 or some mins of posting. After that you can only delete YOUR copy. Meaning the message is out there for the other person or all the other group members who got it delivered. An all time edit button is going to be chaos!
What about an edit button, but only for 24 hours... Seems to solve the quick fixed (typos) but also keeps the integrity of older posts and their time based context.
Thoughts?
I think that'd help for sure however I'd do something more like 1-hour; maybe even less.
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Good point. Perhaps it'll wipe out the comments and likes when you edit? I'm sure it'll have an edit tag.