a tweet is edited materially and the AI didn’t detect it) I think it’s not sufficient. This could be part of the solution, but given the very low tolerance for false negatives (i.e.
If the AI thinks that the edit is material, people are notified. the misuse scenarios mentioned in the beginning) it absolutely is.Īn obvious idea would be to use AI to determine if a tweet has been edited in a material way. Now, in the majority of cases, it may not even be necessary to notify those people because the edit isn’t material but only a correction of a typo. Even if most of them don’t feel bothered - user attention and screen real estate are limited and valuable, so the price that you’d pay for improving the experience of one user, the user who published the tweet, would be way too high. If that triggers a notification to everyone who interacted with the tweet, you’d bother hundreds of thousands of people. Imagine a tweet, which got hundreds of thousands of likes and retweets, gets edited. The second issue is much more complicated. This seems like an easy to solve UI challenge. If you wanted to take it a step further you could let users switch back to the original tweet and highlight the changes, along the lines of a very simple version history. The first issue, I think, is easily solvable in a fairly unobtrusive way by adding a “warning” note or icon that tells users that a tweet has been edited.
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If a user can send out a tweet, get thousands of likes, comments, and retweets, and then change the content of the original tweet, you’re opening a pandora’s box full of problems. The real problem is that if you allow users to edit a tweet after it’s been published, you compromise the integrity of the conversation that it may be a part of. But in this case, I don’t think that’s the reason. I know it’s hard to imagine for startup folks like me just how expensive it is for a large organization, which runs a product that is used by tens or hundreds of millions of users, to make seemingly minor product changes. LinkedIn posts are editable, so are posts on Instagram or Facebook. So what are the costs of making tweets editable? It can’t be the engineering effort that’s preventing the feature from being built.
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If someone from Twitter reads this, please feel free to chime in. I haven’t talked to anyone at Twitter about it, though, so it’s all speculation. My guess is that from Twitter’s perspective, the costs of making tweets editable (which are significant, more on that in a second) outweigh the advantages (which benefit only a vocal minority).
Someone at Twitter must have seen the jokes à-la “we can fly to the moon, why can’t we have editable tweets?”. However, given how many times the feature has been requested by users, I can’t imagine that Twitter hasn’t considered building it. There might be hundreds of other features and improvements on Twitter’s backlog that have higher priority.
One possibility is that Twitter just doesn’t care. In this post, I’ll take a look at the following questions:
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If you’ve come to this place for practical tips on how to build a SaaS or B2B marketplace, read at your own risk. Still, I wasn’t sure if I should publish this post, which I had drafted a couple of weeks ago, but when I saw Twitter’s April 1 tweet getting hundreds of thousands of comments, likes, and retweets, I figured there are enough people who are interested in it. The reason is that it leads to some interesting product design and UX questions and I love geeking out on this kind of stuff. The world has many, many much bigger problems than tweet editing, and you might be wondering why I’m writing a blog post about the topic. It wasn’t the first time that I wished I could edit a tweet, but this time the lack of an “edit tweet” button was particularly annoying. When I noticed a misleading typo in one of the tweets a few hours later, I was reminded that Twitter doesn’t allow you to edit a tweet once it’s published. A few weeks ago, I put out a few tweets about our investment in Heygo.
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