{"id":40101,"date":"2013-12-17T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T19:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/twitter-to-allow-tweet-editing.html"},"modified":"2013-12-18T23:14:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T06:14:16","slug":"twitter-to-allow-tweet-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/twitter-to-allow-tweet-editing.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to allow tweet editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Oh, thank goodness. I seriously hate the typos that crop up on my Twitter feed &#8212; esp. since a lot of it is done on my phone. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s <i>really<\/i> interesting here is what Twitter&#39;s doing to keep this from being abused &#8212; limiting the time when a correction can be made, limiting the size of the correction, and some algorithmic goodies to try and keep the substantive meaning of the tweet the same. \u00a0I have no doubt people will still be able to figure out some way to game this (and a thousand before-and-after animated GIFs are born), but I&#39;m hoping it&#39;s limited enough to have this feature arrive and stick around.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/pEH5eZJ0RjJooHyP2cDtrONB-d3FfgPIjAIMR6cd1fmMNrLF5PLIH7of0BT4F-ZOmMljYOO6RPXLDWSvm6GNhhc2Ou8THR_apTlI3QQ771EfsQcwDjgXHup83krAalIWG90sbiUF0Q=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/thedesk.matthewkeys.net\/2013\/12\/16\/exclusive-twitter-working-on-edit-feature-for-tweets\/'>Exclusive: Twitter working on \u201cedit\u201d feature for tweets | The Desk<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Twitter is working on a new feature that would allow users to edit tweets once they are published, three sources close to the project have confirmed to The Desk. Those sources, who asked to be identified only as Twitter employees, say the feature has been a top priority at the company for months &#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/SAyz4XafrVm' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, thank goodness. I seriously hate the typos that crop up on my Twitter feed &#8212; esp. since a lot of it is done on my phone. \u00a0 What&#39;s really interesting here is what Twitter&#39;s doing to keep this from being abused &#8212; limiting the time when a correction can be made, limiting the size &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/twitter-to-allow-tweet-editing.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter to allow tweet editing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15480,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/02\/tweet-tweet-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":40101,"position":0},"title":"Tweet tweet","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Aug-09 3:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ugh. 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