If you search Twitter here for the #TwitterEditButton hashtag, you will see that there are a lot of people who want to be able to edit their tweets. Should you be able to? Should Twitter change the way it has been doing this?
I am sure that it is possible. As a web developer, I understand the implications of editing a record. However, there are numerous apps out there that download tweets “instantly”. Would they have to change the way they work to pull down a new tweet if it has been edited? That might really irritate the developers of those apps. If you really want to edit your Tweet, can you not delete it and then repost a new Tweet? Some people might find that tiresome. People who might have downloaded your tweet already would click on this link to Twitter and then would see this.
My suggestion is that Twitter does allow you to edit your tweets, but you have a time limit. Say 1 minute. After that the apps can download your tweet, and no-one will be the wiser.
What are your thoughts? Do you have an idea on what Twitter can do? Or do you think people are just being stupid?
