![]() Now, what happens if I edit my original tweet to declare “I love dogs”? You are now misrepresented as a dog-lover, and when your cat-loving friends see this (which they will when I reply to your tweet, mentioning them all), they disown you.Ī Twitter edit button could be used to change statements after others have retweeted or endorsed them. Then you, being also a cat lover (because why wouldn’t you be), decide to quote my tweet, agreeing “I do too!” (Remember when Twitter used to be this innocent?) I, a cat lover, decide to tweet “I love cats!” More importantly, an edit button might have unintended consequences, and could be weaponised.Ĭonsider this. (This is currently what happens when tweets are “deleted”.) Cats and dogs If a user were to edit a tweet, the most Twitter could do is send out a message saying “please edit this tweet” – but the third party could choose whether or not to actually do it. It’s a bit like an email – once I’ve sent it and you’ve downloaded it, there’s no way for me to delete it from your machine. Once third parties have downloaded tweets, there’s no way for Twitter to get them back or edit them. That’s what powers Twitter clients such as TweetDeck, TweetBot, Twitteriffic and Echofon, which together account for some 6 million users. The reason is that Twitter has what’s called an Application Programming Interface (or API) which allows third parties such as other apps or researchers to download tweets in real time. The first thing to know about tweets is that, unlike posts on many other platforms, there is fundamentally no way for Twitter to pull them back after they are sent. Why has Twitter been so opposed to an edit button? The answer might be that it isn’t as simple as it appears.
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