Twitter Begins Testing an Edit Button

[MacRumors]

Twitter has officially started testing an edit button for Twitter Blue subscribers, allowing users to edit their tweets for typos and mistakes even after they've already been published, according to a tweet from the company's official account today.

Twitter had previously confirmed it was working on an edit button but offered no details on when it may be available to users for testing. According to a Twitter blog post, the new edit button will be available to small groups of Twitter Blue subscribers later this month following "internal testing" at Twitter.

Tweets that have been edited will be clearly marked as edited, and users will be able to see past versions of the tweet. Tweets will remain editable for up to 30 minutes after they've been tweeted.

For this test, Tweets will be able to be edited a few times in the 30 minutes following their publication. Edited Tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label so it's clear to readers that the original Tweet has been modified. Tapping the label will take viewers to the Tweet's Edit History, which includes past versions of the Tweet.

Twitter says testing of the edit button will be "localized to a single country at first" and will expand over time. The company notes it will pay close attention to how the new functionality will "impact the way people read, write, and engage with Tweets."

Article Link: Twitter Begins Testing an Edit Button

 

[DocMultimedia]

Twitter. What's that?

In any case, is it really worth being able to edit the tiny post? And it's anyone using Blue Twitter?

 

[Benlurks1010]

My crystal ball is showing me another Blue price increase…

 

[alexiaa]

My crystal ball is showing me another Blue price increase…

And yet they’re gonna continue making up excuses as to why Twitter Blue doesn’t remove ads.

 

[marco114]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

 

[Complex757]

What an update?

Should have happen earlier, Twitter has only been around for fifteen years

 

[ponzicoinbro]

Just tweeted that CEO is a nice guy and the company is well run.

Then I edited the tweet because I remember the CEO isn’t nice and the platform is full of bots and that they employed spies.

Former Twitter employee is convicted in Saudi spy case | CNN Business

A former Twitter manager accused of spying for Saudi Arabia was convicted on Tuesday on six criminal counts, including acting as an agent for the country and trying to disguise a payment from an official tied to Saudi's royal family.

edition.cnn.com

 

[nevard]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

If you really had developed real web apps for years you should have known about how on large scale everything is not as simple as editing database record. As a simplified example think of every time someone sends a tweet it is pushed to it's followers timeline cache. Editing each of these caches later can be tricky.

 

[BootsWalking]

Being geeks like us I'm surprised they didn't label it the "mutability button".

 

[sparkinstx]

I'd be good with a five minute edit timeout. Sometimes I put brain before fingers, and leave out a word, and just want to go back and add it.

 

[6787872]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

yeah seriously, this is basic stuff. it has to scale obviously due to the large amount of data but it's really not that complicated.

 

[Schtibbie]

If you really had developed real web apps for years you should have known about how on large scale everything is not as simple as editing database record. As a simplified example think of every time someone sends a tweet it is pushed to it's followers timeline cache. Editing each of these caches later can be tricky.

And the live search indexes in Twitter would also need to get re-hit.

 

[IIGS User]

Only time I ever have any interaction with Twitter is when something I'm reading online links to it in a story.

Otherwise, all Twitter is to me is the impending traffic jam and general Shishh Show that Delaware will be when the case hits Chancery Court, and all I want to do is drive to the beach for the weekend.

 

[Mrjoedot]

I'd like to hear opinion (from all countries),

what do you use twitter for?

In Thailand where I am based at, It is used to follow gossips & inside stories... Mostly young ones.

 

[ipedro]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

We all know that this had nothing to do with programming time. Use some common sense.

The complexities come from planning around misuse and accounting for EU rules on disinformation. If someone tweets something you like and you agree with it by Liking and Retweeting it, it happens to go viral and then is edited to propagate a harmful lie, do you still want your RT and Like endorsing it?

Keeping it a Twitter Blue feature somewhat gets around that as those accounts are tied to a method of payment and aren't easily run by bot/troll farms. If they abuse the feature, it's easier to track those users and prevent them from creating new accounts.

Still, I think editing a Tweet should reset its Likes and RT's to prevent implied endorsements of content users may not agree with anymore.

 

[error]

$5 a month sounds silly. What more do you get besides an edit-functionality (that should be a standard feature)? Checkmark? No ads? No nazi's?

 

[AlexJaye]

The beauty of Twitter was the lack of an edit button.

 

[PsykX]

Adding an Edit Tweet button has been talked for ages.
It feels like rocket science for them.

 

[jimbobb24]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

They find posts they don’t like and ban people. That takes a lot of resources.

 

[lazyrighteye]

At least there is a view history. Uneditable tweets are way better.

 

[azentropy]

That's good. So hypothetically tweets say like "Why are people so mean?" could be edited to say "Why am I so mean?"

 

[xbjllb]

LOL even FB didn't try to make people pay for that feature. And it needs to come with an edit history like FB, so politicians who "revise" their tweets still have the original heinous things they tweeted viewable.

 

[minik]

My last tweet was in April when EM wanted to play. Not sure if I'm going back, but I guess this 'edit button' is a progress.

 

[fishkorp]

I've developed web applications for years and adding something like this shouldn't take years. It would take me maybe a day to program this. They make it like it's some huge achievement. What do people do all day that work at twitter? They've been talking about larger post sizes as well, never happened. FYI: this post is edited lmao

You’ve clearly never worked on anything this size, scope, with APIs, and needs to comply with various regulations around the world. This isn’t making a new tables and updating an existing one.

As for Tweet size, they did increase it. It’s double what it used to be.

 

[D-ConYT]

Only 30 minutes huh? What if you need to update a tweet 31+ minutes after it's published?