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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:21PM (#31599385)
I think it twitter's case it was architectural. By treating tweets as immutable the could publish them on a pipeline and not worry about duplicate copies around the system being out of sync.
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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by mattnewton on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:32PM (#31599500)
That and early on it used sms as one of the interfaces, which is not editable.
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Re:CNN cutting back on over-hyping everything as “breaking n... by jedberg on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:35PM (#31599530)
They could always send another SMS with the edit. :)

But yes, that too. The whole system was designed around SMS which couldn't be "unsent".

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