Finally, Twitter has announced that it is working on a button allowing users to edit their tweets after posting them. Ideally, with the button, you’ll be able to fix any typos or errors in a tweet without sacrificing replies, retweets, or likes it had already accrued.
Currently, you can only delete and tweet again or recall the tweet before you send it, though this feature is only available for Twitter Blue subscribers. The edit button was the most requested feature for years, to the point it became a laughable meme.
Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey was reluctant to add such a feature after sharing his concerns that an edit button would let users change a tweet’s meaning after it was widely shared.
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However, the company’s opinion on the feature appears to have changed. Especially after a new CEO was appointed and Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has always been in favor of the button, recently acquired a stake in the company.
Of course, numerous concerns around the requested feature have cropped up. Twitter’s consumer product VP Jay Sullivan, claims “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of a public conversation.”
“Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work,” he added. The company plans to test the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming months.
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Alfred Gitonga is a passionate tech news writer with a deep interest in smartphones and related technologies. He is a staff writer at Mobitrends.co.ke.
