Jack Dorsey Says Twitter Needs An Edit Function (buzzfeed.com)

Posted by msmash on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:50AM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

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.

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There needs to be a time limit, and "Edited" flag. by ZorinLynx · 2016-12-29 08:53 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.