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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by krschultz on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:52PM (#11710254)
Edit seems much harder to implement. This basically adds some metadata to the Tweet model instead of embedding it within the body text. That's a change and it needs to be implemented all over, but it is pretty backwards compatible.

It seems that one of the fundamental assumptions is that Tweets are immutable. Changing that could break all kinds of things and would probably their systems significantly more complicated.

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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by mgiannopoulos on Monday May 16, 2016 @07:01PM (#11710285)
Even Facebook has an edit feature for a long time now with a revision history of posts/comments. No issues of abuse. This isn't rocket science.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by dec0dedab0de on Monday May 16, 2016 @09:00PM (#11710703)
Facebook has had abuse from pages that got likes, and then later changed their title and purpose.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by mgiannopoulos on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @01:32AM (#11711523)
You can do this on any social media though.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by danso on Monday May 16, 2016 @11:02PM (#11711134)
Facebook posts aren't as public-facing by default. AFAIK there's no FB equivalent to the retweet, in that the content of a FB share is not quite the same as the relation between a retweet and the original tweet.
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by mgiannopoulos on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @01:00AM (#11711442)
You can do a share with zero added text = retweet You can also do a share of a link post keeping "the original post"
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Re:Twitter to Stop Counting Photos and Links in 140-Characte... by riffic on Tuesday May 17, 2016 @03:30PM (#11716585)
Hashtags and @-replies could also theoretically be moved from the message body and into metadata fields.
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