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Discussion on: Should Twitter Have an Edit Button?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

@aminamos I prefer permanence because [...] we can take tweets at face value

For me, if the author of the tweet wants - but cannot - edit it, it's probably because there is something wrong that happened in the communication between the author and its readers.

You know, there is a lot that could happen before you hit "Send Tweet". Between what the author meant, what he wanted to write, what he wrote, what his fingers typed, what he was forced to remove because of the arbitrary length limit, the context he was writing this, the context that its readers read it, what the readers read, how they interpret it, there are like 10 reasons to not take the tweet's content at face value.

As far as I'm concerned, you want to preserve Twitter's divine right to make those communication errors permanent.

Why?