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I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.
by TwelveNights 4y ago
I've always thought that Twitter adopted the same line of thinking, preventing tweets from being editable.
- jedberg 4y agoI think it twitter's case it was architectural. By treating tweets as immutable the could publish them on a pipeline and not worry about duplicate copies around the system being out of sync.
- mattnewton 4y agoThat and early on it used sms as one of the interfaces, which is not editable.
- jedberg 4y agoThey could always send another SMS with the edit. :) But yes, that too. The whole system was designed around SMS which couldn't be "unsent".
- fortran77 4y agoIt's to prevent tweeting "LIKE this if you like Ice Cream" and then editing it to say "LIKE this if you like pedophilia" Nobody would ever Like/Retweet anything if it could be changed later.