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by diebeforei485 1174 days ago
It's correct that Tweets can't be edited after a certain amount of time. But given how incorrect this information is, he should delete this tweet.
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I wrote the tweet. Didn’t realize it’s would be posted here.

I cannot edit tweets after it has replies (apparently by design). I added follow-up tweets, but seeing those are not read: I deleted the tweet.

Here are numbers in context, not looking at stock-based comp: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/

Thank you!

> I cannot edit tweets after it has replies (apparently by design).

I think this is to counter a situation of people posting something adorable to get lots of likes/retweets leading to plenty of fan-out to millions of people's feeds, then replacing the content with something inflammatory.