Twitter Rolls Out Ability to Change Who Can Reply to Your Tweet After It's Posted

What happens to a reply that's up but doesn't fall under the new allowed group category.
This isn't the solution to harassment, it really is just going to make Twitter a worst haven for people who want to surround themselves with the same opinion. Echo chamber indeed.

What happens to a reply that's up but doesn't fall under the new allowed group category.
This isn't the solution to harassment, it really is just going to make Twitter a worst haven for people who want to surround themselves with the same opinion. Echo chamber indeed.

Came here to post this ^^^

Basically a great way of controlling a narrative.

After all the misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy theories, and vitriol I've seen on Twitter, especially in the last year, I really hope this feature doesn't come to fruition. People, especially malicious ones, need to be fact-checked on their public proclamations of "truth." "Giving control" to users is a misnomer; all this does is silence reason and critique, further dividing people into tribalism and self-indulgent confirmation bias.

And yet still no edit button after a tweet has been posted.

An edit button is completely impractical. If you have made a mistake, then you should delete and retweet. Picture the following scenario with an edit button:

I tweet "Like and retweet this picture of a cat for good luck" or something as mundane as that. I then edit that tweet a few weeks later to say "Like and retweet this picture...." and I have edited the tweet to show animal torture or changed the message to be that you support pedophilia. You could then have hundreds of thousands of people who had posted that on their own timeline, and possibly don't know about it as it's weeks later.

The only way an edit button would work is if a tweet is edited, it then removes all comments or likes up until that point, as the person who liked or commented on the post did so based on it's original content. At this point, you would have been as well deleting the original tweet and tweeting it correctly.

There is an argument that Facebook allows an edit function, and a edit history. This differs from Twitter though where I can see all the posts a user has liked or retweeted. Many employers check social media of job applicants, it is completely unreasonable to expected everyone to have to continually check their previous likes and retweets incase someone has decided to edit them.

I would rather prefer having a soccer team kicking me between the legs, than entering again in Twitter.

And yet still no edit button after a tweet has been posted.