Usually three thoughts go through your mind after you publish a tweet: you either feel satisfied over how witty and funny you are, you discover you made a typo or botched a URL, or you realize that you've made a huge mistake. Tokyo-based design firm Information Architects — known for the minimalist text editor IA Writer — is (unofficially) pitching Twitter with a new option to handle erroneous tweets other than deleting them. According to the firm's Oliver Reichenstein, the answer is a "mark as error" button that would strikethrough the bad tweet. It's a rather clever idea, as it makes it clear to all that the tweet was a mistake, and it also raises a flag to be on the lookout for a followup tweet to explain the error. Unlike the...
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