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		SamBam on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet 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 on Nov 30, 2020 | [–]

It's just Twitter engineers goofing.

yellowstuff on Nov 30, 2020 | [–]

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 on Nov 30, 2020 | [–]

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?

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