Twitter has been working on an Edit button since last year

It's hard to imagine a company sabotaging their primary purpose as actively. This is such a tough situation. Every user wants to be able to update their stuff, rewrite their words. But the public function, the utility of twitter is as a system of record, a forum for interaction. Edit threatens to blow up the primary value of the network, it's attestability. What happened when.

Mastodon has this right: it's "Delete & Redraft". Start over. You don't get to keep your timestamp. When you say something is as important as what you say. Letting this blur together, destroying Twitter as a part of the record would be an incalculable loss to the platform. Yet it's something that countless users all want and demand. Technically fairly uninteresting: but this is a very hard product trade off to make.

That’s what I would say when I just stole an idea from a Musk poll./s

I could swear we heard something about editing or edit buttons since 2009-2011 and it was always just 6-12 months away. If someone working in design at twitter reads this: Wtf is your startpage about either it’s a 5 year old picture with login or a searchbar that doesn’t really work when not logged in. Does it really perform better than showing trending tweets or something useful for new users?

What’s their malfunction, performance? Edit is just another type of edge to vertices.

Whole lotta fuss about an edit button