Tweets, but editable: A concept
An idea of how Twitter should implement the infamous edit feature.
Tl;dr:
You can edit a tweet at any point in time, but you can only edit one word and that word will stay underlined. Anyone can hover/tap over the word to see its edit history.
Context:
The biggest reason that people want to edit tweets is to fix their typos. For accounts with a low following, this doesn’t really matter. But for famous accounts, typos are a problem. Tweets have a small lifetime and most of the activity of the activity on a tweet happens in the first few minutes/hours (or sometimes a few years later). Often, it takes a few minutes to notice a typo once tweeted. By then it's too late to delete and re-write it.
Most people simply want a Facebook-like edit button. But that might not be the greatest idea. We might never get another covfefe again. Also, someone might edit their viral tweet, change its entire meaning, and make everyone who RTed look stupid.
> Most people need edit button to fix their typos.
>Allowing people to edit more than that might be catastrophic.
>Allow enough editing for people to fix them embarrasing typin mistekes.
> Make it easy to see if someone edited a tweet rather than hiding it in a submenu.
