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Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com)
Twitter is considering an edit function for tweets. In a seemingly impromptu chat on his platform Thursday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey gave hope to those who have long advocated for the feature, telling one user that "a form of edit is def needed" and another that an edit function is something the company is "thinking a lot about." From a report: The demand for an edit button has become something of a meme on Twitter. After seemingly every new Twitter product announcement, many of the platform's users respond with some form of "Yes, but still no edit button?" Meanwhile the feature has become standard in competing platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
What other platform do we know of that needs an odit feature? Let me think... let me think...
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
There needs to be a time limit for editing tweets. Five minutes is good. This keeps someone from going back and changing what they said long after they said it.
There also needs to be a flag that tells people that the tweet was edited. This prevents modifying a tweet after people have already agreed with it, etc.
Another option is to show the final, edited tweet as the default, but then show what the original(s) was/were by clicking on a history button. That way everyone can present their intended content as the default (e.g. fixing typos or punctuation), but it won't let someone completely alter their content and meaning with the intent to deceive.
With no edit button, you have to *think* before you post, and own up to your mistakes. It isn't surprising that people are clamoring for edit.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
If I have second thoughts about something I tweeted I delete it.
If I feel the need to edit, I do the following: click on the tweet, Copy it, delete it, and then paste into a new message, making edits I feel necessary.
Highlight replies, retweets and likes that occur before any edit, so its obvious to observers without any interaction required that the reply, retweet or like was for a version other than the "All Jews must die!" a tweet was later edited to.
If an edit is substantial or (and here is one for all you machine learning junkies out there) changes the context of the tweet ("I like kittens" becomes "the Jews deserved the holocaust"), then perhaps also notify anyone who has interacted with that tweet by means of reply, retweet or like so they can review the edit and ensure they havent been misled.
or maybe develop a versioning system to go along with the edit button, so everyone can see what changed and when...
I haven't looked at my Twitter feed in years. When I did recently, I was shocked to discover I'm following a ton of porn bots. I spent a few hours removing those.
You could tweet, "I love [some new movie]. Retweet if you agree! Then, after a bunch of retweets, edit it to say "Retweet this message if you eat other people's boogers!"
If the retweets would update, it could prove quite humorous for a day or two.
Why not have voting with an edit function, too?
From an operational POV, I would hate going from an "everything is immutable; we only support insert and delete operations" to "mutate all the things and damn the caches!". It's an entirely different architecture. I can totally imagine the backend and ops teams saying sure, we can do this, as long as you understand it means we're launching a brand new platform.
Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
Basefuck users won't click a ''history'' button. They'll think it's about nights in amour and romance unmpires and the pogrom farters and all that shit.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Or just lock it once anyone replies, forwards, refucks it or whatever.
If you make a typhoo odds are you'll spot it within 30 seconds.
Oh, bugger!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
You then get replies pointing to nothing. Fucking retarded idea.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
When is gmail going to get an edit function? Maybe twitter actually needs draft tweets? Seems better than allowing to change the history of a conversation, no?
Seriously, if there's no edit but people are still clamouring for it, maybe a bit of education could go a long way helping them understand the difference between a blog and twitter. Oh, and reviewing up to 140 chars doesn't take that much effort.
So just like Facebook does it?
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There needs to be a time limit for editing tweets. Five minutes is good. This keeps someone from going back and changing what they said long after they said it. There also needs to be a flag that tells people that the tweet was edited. This prevents modifying a tweet after people have already agreed with it, etc.
Don't allow likes, replies, forwarding, etc during the edit window.
Or cancel/delete any likes, replies, forwarding, etc when an edit occurs, basically deter editing. If the original content changes the feedback should be removed. Yes, this can be abused but it seems less troublesome than letting feedback persist after an edit. Maybe notify the replier and if they care they could check the edited original and restore their feedback if they still care too. This would let them call out someone who completely changed what they originally said.
If anything, most or all social media platforms should prevent editing. People need to learn that there are consequences to saying things in public.
Maybe if people had to live with the embarrassment of saying stupid things, they'd say fewer stupid things.
=Smidge=
They also have a "mute" feature where someone can try to harass the crap out of you all day by tagging you in posts and it never shows up in your notifications. Just sayin....
Obviously a share price pump 'n dump play. After the latest layoffs, Twitter only has about 1,000 engineers, hardly enough to tackle a new feature.
Romance umpires? You're both making less sense than usual and far more entertainer than usual, so ... carry on, I guess.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
...is simply to be disconnected.
That way, all the people tweeting stupid shit can pretend the rest of the universe cared about their idiotic crap, but then we don't actually have to read it, and they are in fact safe from the logical consequences of their inane comments.
Everybody wins.
-Styopa
It already has delete... unlike Slashdot!
God spoke to me
Use the StackExchange edit history mechanism.
What Twitter needs most is an edit function applied to its top management.
who cares about them?