It can't because the people most likely to pay are also the ones worth the most to advertisers. Thus you need to charge more to make up for it, thus selecting for even more valuable people, etc, etc.
>2) allowing users to edit tweets which people have been begging for for years.
Due to the high possibility for abuse either by users or people taking over their accounts this is unlikely unless it resets all metrics on the tweet. At which point you may as well make a new tweet. Same reason you can't edit the title of a reddit post.
1) If you need to set the price high to avoid that effect, just set it high.
2) Add an “edited” tag (just like HN does). For replies that and retweets that came in before the edit, maybe have an easy way to show the original version.
Or, 2b) Show the edited version literally as an edit, with the typos crossed out.
You missed my point, there is possibly no price high enough. The higher the price the more valuable the users who pay it are to advertisers. Thus the price needs to be even higher and endlessly up it goes.
>2) Add an “edited” tag (just like HN does)
HN does not allow the changing of headlines either except by admins. Arguably headlines are closer to tweets than comments.
Well, the price is higher for an ever-smaller set of users! It’s a demand curve - in principle you can pick a point where cost $C x N users is worth more than the loss of advertising revenue from those users.
Arguably headlines are closer to tweets than comments.
I’d argue the opposite!
As a compromise -- how about links on Twitter are similar to HN headlines?
I edited this comment multiple times. No edit tag.
Huh, wow! Somehow I had the idea that it did. I might be mixing it up with some other forum, or the edit to add: tag that many people here add manually.
and doesn't allow editing past a brief window
Right, that’s precisely the kind of obvious balancing restriction I was alluding to, by mentioning HN at all.
your idea is so awful that I struggle to think of an idea that could be more destructive to discussion quality
I’m going to need a bit more justification for that one than “your example of existing usage was incorrect”. Care to expand?
Why does HN allow edits at all?
Edit to add(!): I’m glad I was able to fix an unbalanced *
I think Twitter could allow a 60-120 second edit window without being ripe for abuse that an indefinite edit window would allow.
The most outrageous thing is that it sends me non-disablable notifications for tweets people have posted. Sometimes tend over the course of a few days. Like there’s no other, UX-wise correct way for that. Holy fuck, how stupid. Makes me dread opening Twitter at all.
Edit: Just opened the app. One smartphone page of only spam.
The best option I can think of for edits is to have the edit just delete the original and give you an input field with the text, attachments, and replied-to fields filled in already. (Maybe do something fancy and skip reuploading large media that doesn't get changed.) As far as likes/links/retweets go it's an entirely separate tweet.
That or adding support for a reply to be flagged as having corrections and be promoted to the top of the reply list and somehow highlighted to bring attention to to.
This is called "Lists" and has been a free feature of Twitter since 2009.
As I said, though, literally any business model other than just letting people be paid users and see what they want to see without interference.