I don't think it's grammar errors that's at the root of this. I think it's more subtly irritation over a valid criticism of a tweet that's got exposure, and wanting to change wording to alter the tweet's connotation to address that criticism while still making the same point by and large.
Judging by the number of comments suggesting to make comments "editable for only a few minutes after they’re first posted", I don't think that's right.
Well those people recognize the problem with letting people change their words indefinitely, but do see the value an edit button brings in fixing grammatical errors. A pretty reasonable feature I do admit.
But the amount of bellyaching over this by many is not because people want grammatical errors in their tweets but because it has the potential to totally alter how twitter is a primary source record of public statements, and words can be possibly changed over time and thus the connotation/dennotations of those statements can change. Given how much political discussion takes place on twitter and how much of it about how someone said something stupid, that could be a huge shift in the platform's usage.
Re:Twitter is adding an edit button
by mushyhammer on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:30AM
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> which has database-level implications
I don’t think such a change really matters at a company like Twitter. The problem is more about principle than technicalities.
Re:Twitter is adding an edit button
by jklinger410 on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @10:07AM
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No, people really just want to edit their tweets. It's not that deep.
What people really want is not send tweets with typos and grammatical errors, so a good spell checker is what twitter should have built. At the very least they could have started with that, because that's something that is easy to launch and un-launch, unlike editable tweets (which has database-level implications because they will store the history of edits).