Today , Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey take head from Twitter users about what they desire the company to do better in 2017 . Dorsey seemed centripetal to one idea that Twitter ’s power users havebeen begging for : the ability to redact tweets . This is an fearful idea .
not sure why you ’re quoting this tweet but yes , a form of edit is def demand . But for everyone , not just those w badges
— jack ( @jack)December 29 , 2016
With the rise of fake news program , trust in thing posted online is at an all - time low . So why would Twitter add a feature film that might make a exploiter second guess what they ’re reading ? If a your tweet has a literal or an error , there ’s a ace gentle way to fix it : just delete it and repost the tweet . If you were able-bodied to edit a tweet even mo after sending it , you could easily play a trick on a good deal of people . More specifically , pinch with breaking news can be retweeted 100 of times in just a matter of transactions , so if someone was to switch a tweet after it has been retweeted 300 times , thing could get messy .
mayhap Twitter could solve this by add together an picture to designate that the a tweet has been edited , but then how would you know to what degree it was edited ? Twitter could add a revisal history so as to battle this , but 140 character tweet with a revision account attached seems excessive . And what if a of the essence piece of information is subtly exchange so that it alter the intact import of the tweet ? And what if you retweeted some sentiment that you harmonize with , only to find that the tweet you just endorsed has been changed to signify something completely different ? I could go on .
Editing tweets would be an easy way for slapdash newsperson to circulate misinformation and sew together muddiness or for trolls to spread falsity . Here ’s a conjectural scenario : a reporter squeeze about a gunslinger at the intersection of Green Street and Third Avenue . The tweet is retweeted and share hundreds of times in just a few minutes . But then , the reporter realizes he misheard the police electronic scanner and realizes there was no gun for hire at all . So he delete the tweet , leave little trace of the original erroneousness — unless Twitter imposes that clunky revision history feature that users would probably snub .
In theory , editing tweet sounds decent , peculiarly for quickly correcting typo , but there is no conceivable way to build a tweet editing feature film that would n’t somehow lead to misinformation or even be mistreat . Part of the magnificence that Twitter utile is get it on that the tweet you ’re seeing ca n’t been modified . change that principle would make Twitter even more perplexing and less reliable .
If this has n’t convinced you that editing tweets is a terrible idea , try out this fun thought experimentation : what kind of shit would Donald Trump pull out if he was able to edit tweet ?
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