[ksaj]

Oh, I was unaware that editing wouldn't change the date/timestamp. That is pretty common, including here (I just edited this line in on purpose to see). That would be quite misleading.

If that's what happened, it just demonstrates another way Elon has ruined Twitter as a reliable news source. Maybe it should be marked with a * when edited, like Mastodon and Reddit do.

There is history to this on Twitter. At one point, people were making fake prophesy by Tweeting things privately every day and then deleting them as they don't succeed. Then ranting about the big one that suddenly did. People would look at the account, and sure enough, lots of future foretold.

[yathxyz]

I see where you're going with this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy

"[..] ...a Texan who fires some gunshots at the side of a barn, then paints a shooting target centered on the tightest cluster of hits and claims to be a sharpshooter."