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> Meanwhile Twitter struggles at implementing the most requested feature for many years - to edit Tweets

I thought that the immutability of tweets is a feature, to be honest.

git style version control would be ideal: retain the old but allow for minds to change; goog's cloud office suite already does it

personally i find the editing almost as important as the content(o)

seeing what people change and when can illuminate context that would be hidden from a first thought best thought adherence

(o) http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/yal.00049.001_...

When a tweet is reported on the TV news, people only see a screenshot. People aren't going to know if it was edited, when it was edited, or what was edited.

Many would also be pissed if after they retweet something, the original tweet changes in a meaningful way.

yeah, you'd have to have a visual cue.. even an option for displaying a commit message alongside the message

allow respeak an immutable quality, keep the respeak as is and have a flag signaling the original underwent an edit

the interest is in more clarity and transparency

it is. if you give people the ability to edit tweets they could switch them out to something obscene when they get embedded in a news article, for instance. the whole point of twitter is to have small, public, immutable statements tied to someone's name.

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