Application researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong said in a tweet that the edit button may have an “unchanged” quality. Twitter’s approach to Tweet Editing seems to be unchanged, as, instead of mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the modified content, along with the list of old “Tweet before this modification,” Wong posted 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.
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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 have been working on a processing facility since last year!” The company said. “We did not get the idea from a poll (by Elon Musk). We are starting tests on @TwitterBlue. Workshops in the coming months to find out what works, what does not and what is possible,” he tweeted. Jay Sullivan, the company’s vice president of consumer products, said the edit button is Twitter’s most in-demand feature for many years. “People want to be able to fix (sometimes embarrassing) mistakes, typographical errors and hot downloads right now. They’re currently resolving this by deleting and reposting tweets,” 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. Stay up to date with technology news and startups that matter. Subscribe to our daily newsletter for the latest and most necessary technological news, delivered directly to your inbox.
