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Comment by pelasaco | Hacker News Reader

The edit feature, i think is problematic. Imagine you post something, X people liked it, then you edit the post changing the whole meaning of the message and the people that liked it before changes are still be there.. liking it. That's problematic IMO, when people get canceled because they liked something on Twitter, that they actually didn't.

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Kizie doesn't edit your existing tweets, even Twitter doesn't/can't do that :D

Kizie just makes it easier to discard/redo your last sent tweet within 10 seconds of posting it, before implementing I thought it wouldn't be useful but I've personally used it plenty of times. It does help, try it out and let me know maybe

Twitter do not allow editing in their API, so all this app is doing is _not posting it_ for a short period of time after you click submit to allow you to edit if you need to. No one will see the tweet until that time period is over.

Did you get this information from:

"Undo or redo a tweet Discard your last tweet or re-edit it, quickly with shortcuts" or are you just guessing it based on the twitter API?

Neither, it's just fairly clear to me that this is not the sort of feature that a third party client to a service can typically implement if there is no support for it in the official client (completely separate from this being Twitter).

As another example, Gmail has an "undo" button on sending an email, but other email clients don't (mostly). Why? Because email doesn't have the concept of un-doing a send, so the only way they can implement this at the "protocol level" is to... not, and to implement it entirely in the client with a delay.

It is well known that Twitter does not allow editing tweets. Any apps that ostensibly do that are simply delaying the tweet or deleting and reposting it.

You're absolutely right :)

I guess this is why twitter doesn't allow edits. I never thought about it this way.

I believe Twitter also relies on read only Tweets as a performance optimisation.

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