To edit is to overthink. No one wants that on Twitter.
One hopes the programmers have anticipated such problems and are working to contain them, along with who knows how many logistical headaches. There is a hard limit, though, to predicting human behavior, online or off. The edit feature is obviously conceived as a helpful tool, yet so was the internet itself, and look what happened there. As with anything else, bad actors will find a loophole to exploit, and we’ll realize this wasn’t worth it.
If the typo you discover only after thousands of accounts have shared your joke is frustrating, it’s also sort of charming—the flaw that keeps you humble and adds to the freewheeling chaos of a platform in perpetual motion. And if you can’t live with the embarrassment, you can nobly sacrifice that engagement, which after all is meaningless, by scrubbing the tweet whole from your feed. An edit, by comparison, is too self-consciously controlling, a pathetic grasp at order where none belongs.
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