[mushyhammer]

But Twitter doesn’t want to be just another webpage. Tweets and its dates are used in court and by historians. That’s basically why Twitter has been hesitant to allow edits.

I kinda wish they let people add some text instead of allowing editing, like:

    Wouldnt it be nice?

    Added: * wouldn’t

I know deletions are still allowed, but they don’t lead to different content.

[eatonphil]

I'm sure that web pages and their dates are used in court and by historians.

[awb]

The web has archive.org for that. Or, ‘download webpage’ from a browser.

[unholiness]

Archive.org works on twitter too?

[zimpenfish]

> Archive.org works on twitter too?

Maybe if you're a famous celebrity etc. but it's scraped mine 5 times since 2007 (and the "expand conversation" links don't work) and I promise you that it has been fairly active ever since I signed up.

[BeFlatXIII]

Is it Twitter's responsibility to be an accurate archive for courts and historians?

[mushyhammer]

It’s not the responsibility, but if you read their post it’s obviously their concern.