Twitter Begins Testing an Edit Button

[Lioness~]

Twitter is as its best….unused!
Most interesting people I follow have realized the same thing.
Paying for editing on my sleeping account? Hard decsion 🤔

 

[alpi123]

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

You make a new tweet. The edit button is mostly for fixing typos.

 

[RalfTheDog]

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

For us, less than 20 minutes to write the code, then a few weeks to test to make sure that you did not create a way for a person to edit someone else's post. (If a user is editing a post at the same time three other users are attempting to edit the same post with a header of the original users ID and the second guy has a blue tie and is standing on his left leg...

 

[RalfTheDog]

This postt edited to dsay, I don't need this feature. i never make mistakes

 

[RalfTheDog]

Dear Mac Rumors. Everything related to Twitter now belongs in the Politics section.

This post edited because: Why not?

 

[routine_analyst]

Why would anyone use this platform anymore? Go outside. Experience life. Stop trolling like the bots.

Before and after Edit Button:

Elon Musk: "I'm buying twitter" 9/1/22
Elon Musk: "I'm not buying twitter." last edited a few seconds ago 9/1/22

 

[Radeon85]

Should have had an edit button from the start anyway. Ridiculous that you have to delete the post and do another one just to correct a tiny mistake.

 

[szw-mapple fan]

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

It’s not the functionality that takes so long, but rather the risk of user backlash and changes to the platform dynamics.

 

[dsut4392]

Twitter allowing edits? I guess they're sick of the constant negative press covfefe.

 

[svish]

Happy to see this happening.