[SamBam]

I think I'm missing a tweet of context. I get that they quoted their own url, like in the top article, but then the account replies "Ugh, busted :(" to someone who has their tweets protected.

[s_m]

It's just Twitter engineers goofing.

[yellowstuff]

As I recall, the trick is that you can post a tweet, grab the URL, then if you edit it quickly enough it won't show up as edited.

[SamBam]

But you can't edit tweets. Any apps that offer "editing" either just impose delays, or easy ways to delete-and-tweet-again in one step, no?