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is there a way to edit a tweet once you've posted it?
is there a way to edit a tweet once you've posted it?
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Inappropriate?I'm afraid the answer is no. You can delete and post a new one (though delete is currently disabled temporarily).
Allowing you to edit your tweet would also be a bit misleading, IMHO, because people who have signed up to receive your tweet via sms would have already received your original tweet as-is even if you edit it on the web
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Note: delete was re-enabled shortly thereafter. -
I'd like to clarify why the "delete and re-tweet" pattern is not a suitable replacement for edit. I have a post here https://twitter.com/SophiaGrace/statu... where I should have said "she didn't _see_ him" but I left out the word "see". I created this twitter account as a microblog of my daughter's childhood so she can come back and read it when she gets older. It is not important to me that SMSes sent at the time of publication can't be edited. It is just important to me that the record exist. If I delete and re-tweet the date/time isn't accurate. So, I'm forced to leave it as it is. (Or as my intention is, keep a "patch file" of changes that I want to make when ever I quit keeping this "Journal" and download it and format it for print.) Anyway, the point is that twitter is useful for a lot of things which the creators didn't originally intend. It should not have limitations imposed which assume the user's intent.
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Hi Richard. I suggest you set up a feed from your Twitter account to a real blog (such as one that uses Wordpress for example), so that you have a copy of all the journal entries on another site.
For the moment, Twitter only allows users to access the last 3200 entries of their account. So by the time your daughter grows up, the much older entries may no longer be browsable. Note: Twitter is not deleting older entries and the entries are still there, just not browsable from the web.
There are third-party tools like TwitterTools for Wordpress that can automatically create a daily Wordpress blogpost that contains all the tweets from the most recent 24-hour period.
You can edit the entries in the Wordpress blog to reflect the correct tweet once it's been imported, and the entries would be browsable as daily entries (the way journals traditionally are).
I realize this isn't exactly the solution that you're asking for, but thought I'd mention the idea fwiw. -
Inappropriate?I think you should be able to edit a tweet. Many of us use twitter like a micro-blog. Sometimes you leave a word out that can be inferred, but for the sake of accuracy I'd like to make the correction. -
Inappropriate?agreed. allow edits. sometimes the rush and need to deliver the basic message precedes the ability to clear up all minor (or even major) semantic mistakes. It's a microblog, not a log of SMS text messages. Our phones can act that way.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?MAKE EDITING TWEETS POSSIBLE !!!
I'M SICK OF NOT BEING ABLE TO CHANGE DATE OR GO BACK & ADD SOMETHING FOR THAT SPECIFIC TIME & DATE -
