Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Character Limit

Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by kstrauser on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:49PM (#11710242)

I think it's still ripe for abuse.

Case 1:

I write "I love cats!" You RT it. I edit it to "I am Al Queda." The FBI visits you.

Case 2:

I write "I am Al Queda." I edit it to "I love cats!" before you see it. You like cats, too, so you RT it. The FBI has a slow feed, so they see that you endorsed my Al Queda membership. They pay you a visit.

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From a systems point of view, when your whole stack is designed around immutability (so you can serve archives of past tweets from append-only CDNs, for example) it may be nigh impossible to add editing.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by Ileca on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:46PM (#11710857)

I think it already happened with a troll baiting racists. He waited for a lot of RT then changed the source of the embedded racist picture with something like "I am a big disgusting stupid racist". Something like that. It was a good one, though.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by dragontamer on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:05PM (#11710717)

The original example is gamefaqs introduction of edits. What is your shoe size?

Then the question changes to an age related question. What is the ideal age of a prostitute?

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by cynix on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @01:16AM (#11711481)

Fun fact: this particular example won't work in Japan, where typical shoe sizes are around 25–29.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by jacobush on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:15AM (#11711837)

But there the typical ... nah I won't go there.

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