Application researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button could have an “unchanged” quality. “Twitter’s approach to Tweet Editing seems to be unchanged, as, instead of mutating the Tweet text into the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the modified content, along with the list of old Tweet “before this amendment,” Wong said late Saturday. It’s still unclear how a tweet edit history will be displayed to users. Initially, the edit button will be available to Twitter Blue users and will be extended to all users at a later stage. Application researcher Alessandro Paluzzi also posted screenshots of the new editing tool, showing how the “Edit Tweet” option could appear in the three-dot menu on the right side of your tweets. Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it was working to allow users to edit their tweets after posting to correct typos and errors. The micro-blogging platform said that Twitter plans to start testing the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in the “coming months”. “Now that everyone is asking… yes, we are working on a processing facility from last year!”, The company said. “We did not get the idea from a poll (by Elon Musk). We start testing on @TwitterBlue. “Workshops in the coming months to learn what works, what does not and what is possible,” he posted on Twitter. Jay Sullivan, the company’s vice president of consumer products, said the edit button has been the most requested Twitter feature for many years. “People want to be able to correct (sometimes embarrassingly) mistakes, typographical errors and hot flashes right now. “Right now they’re working on it, deleting and retweeting,” Sullivan said. Without things like timelines, controls and transparency about what has been processed, “processing could be abused to change the public speaking record,” he commented. 20220417-100002
title: “Twitter S Edit Feature May Keep Digital Traces Of Earlier Tweets " ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-02” author: “Michael Skelley”
Application researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button could have an “unchanged” quality. “Twitter’s approach to Tweet Editing seems to be unchanged, as, instead of mutating the Tweet text into the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the modified content, along with the list of old Tweet “before this amendment,” Wong said late Saturday. It’s still unclear how a tweet edit history will be displayed to users. Initially, the edit button will be available to Twitter Blue users and will be extended to all users at a later stage. Application researcher Alessandro Paluzzi also posted screenshots of the new editing tool, showing how the “Edit Tweet” option could appear in the three-dot menu on the right side of your tweets. Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it was working to allow users to edit their tweets after posting to correct typos and errors. The micro-blogging platform said that Twitter plans to start testing the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in the “coming months”. “Now that everyone is asking… yes, we are working on a processing facility from last year!”, The company said. “We did not get the idea from a poll (by Elon Musk). We start testing on @TwitterBlue. “Workshops in the coming months to learn what works, what does not and what is possible,” he posted on Twitter. Jay Sullivan, the company’s vice president of consumer products, said the edit button has been the most requested Twitter feature for many years. “People want to be able to correct (sometimes embarrassingly) mistakes, typographical errors and hot flashes right now. “Right now they’re working on it, deleting and retweeting,” Sullivan said. Without things like timelines, controls and transparency about what has been processed, “processing could be abused to change the public speaking record,” he commented.
