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It was incredibly annoying how it took up significant real estate at the top of the screen and there was no way to disable the feature. Good riddance.
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The glaring omission is a time limited typo edit window. Just ducking ship it already.
I wonder if there are technical issues here? It wouldn't be too surprising if "tweets are immutable" (and therefore safe to aggressively cache) is an assumption baked into a lot of their code.
Bingo, that's exactly what Twitter Engineers have stated in the past. Example:
https://www.quora.com/When-will-Twitter-offer-the-option-of-...
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> you can turn off their retweets. How does one do this?
Navigate to the profile of the account you'd like to stop seeing retweets from. Click the circular icon with three horizontal dots to the right of their profile picture. Select the first option in this menu labeled "Turn off Retweets."
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Why though? It's bad enough when online news sites edit their articles and a later version carries some different information with no or little hint that it was edited.
I mean, yes, that is one good argument for not having an edit button. But it is not the reason Jack gave.
> Though Twitter has evolved since its SMS days, Dorsey says the static, uneditable nature of posts remains an integral aspect of the platform, as it allows users to retweet and quote tweet others freely without fear that the message they amplified or critiqued could later be altered.
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Makes me think (and shudder) about how one could make filters for text. I partially regret saying this and also still curious :-)
Microsoft already did it, it was called Word Art
Almost like applying a GPT-3 editor to spice up my tweets. I type X tweet and then use GPT-3 or something like that to modify my words/sentences to have more of a Shakespeare or Steve Jobs voice to it.
edit looks as if I found an experiment with GPT-3 to do exactly this: https://twitter.com/intuitmachine/status/1287050253103968257...
> We built Fleets as a lower-pressure, ephemeral way for people to share their fleeting thoughts. We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter. If anyone from twitter reads this, here's one thing that could get me to post more: Give us pseudonyms. Guarantee that you won't leak them to media or mobs. I understand you'll have to givw them to the police sometimes but the po…
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Yeah I actually really respect that they axed something within a timely span, posted about their thoughts, and well, lately the Twitter team has been killing it as far as deploying features and long talked about stuff, so it's all good. The idea of Fleets, whether it was inspired by Stories etc, was another way to engage users and it did have some usefulness. I love the 24hr disappearing thing on IG and I liked it si…
If only Twitter had a full time CEO. Look at the innovation pace coming out of Square.
The other is a hellpit to see who can out-victim and out-woke each other.