Twitter Working on Edit Button, Testing to Begin Soon for Twitter Blue Users

[MacRumors]

Twitter today announced that it has been working on an edit feature "since last year," with testing on the edit button set to begin "in the coming months" with Twitter Blue subscribers.

In a demo of the feature on the Twitter app, users are able to click on the details button of a tweet to see an "Edit Tweet" entry that joins the already available Delete Tweet, Pin to Profile, Change who can reply, and Add/remove from Lists options.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511456430024364037

There is no detail as of now on just how the edit button works, how long tweets can be edited, or whether there are version histories, with Twitter planning to provide that information at a later date.

Twitter first made a joke about work on an edit button on April Fools' Day last week. "We are working on an edit button," the social network tweeted. Most people didn't take the announcement seriously given the day and the fact that people have been clamoring for an edit button for years now, but Twitter today confirmed that the work on the edit button is real.

Twitter plans to test the edit feature with Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter Blue is priced at $3 per month and provides users with early access to new features and other perks. Testing is set to begin soon, with Twitter aiming to learn "what works, what doesn't, and what's possible."

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[tothemoonsands]

Looking forward to Elon Musk taking credit for all new features ?

 

[sniffies]

Twitter edit button: great leap forward in human evolution

 

[Phil77354]

This is probably worthwhile but it won't change the large number of tweets that are impulsive, vitriolic, and then quickly withdrawn (or now, modified).

 

[Unity451]

Elon is already making waves. #innovation

 

[Solomani]

Looking forward to Elon Musk taking credit for all new features ?

Does Elon now have more Twitter control and influence over Rasputin?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Needed Elon Musk money to do a final push for the feature. All it took was some money and a stake in the company to hit the ground running.

 

[0924487]

Just copy, delete and retweet.

 

[Think|Different]

Waste of resources — no one, small or large, truly needs this. Even with change-logs, etc. this will create more issues than it solves.

 

[0924487]

Twitter is a cesspool, edit button or not, avoid it for your mental health.

 

[Porco]

Great! Terrible. Wonderful! Awful. Interesting!

 

[Solomani]

I only support the Twitter edit feature with the following caveats (which Elon agreed with):

 

[sorgo †]

R.I.P. Twitter 😔😘

 

[ghanwani]

Twitter's edit story sounds like iOS's cut and paste story. They are still perfecting it and will release it after every social media platform has had it for years.

 

[ghanwani]

Twitter is a cesspool, edit button or not, avoid it for your mental health.

Where else can you have that much fun?

 

[ghanwani]

Just copy, delete and retweet.

You lose all the likes, replies, and retweets of the original.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Really bad idea beyond editing something you posted within the last few minutes (typos)

 

[turbineseaplane]

An edit button could allow people to update and correct event details, but we'll see how that works.

Better to leave original posts and have updated posts linked or something.

 

[ghanwani]

Really bad idea

A moment later...

Really bad idea beyond editing something you posted within the last few minutes (typos)

You just demonstrated why it's needed.

 

[Lucas Curious]

Not Great, Not Terrible

 

[tmmacops]

What’s a “Twitter”?

 

[erikkfi]

I wonder if there’s a narcissist somewhere who can take credit for this and get their name in a round of headlines.

 

[turbineseaplane]

A moment later...

You just demonstrated why it's needed.

By the same token, I shouldn’t be allowed to come edit it later on today once conversation and possible post quoting has carried on

Just like on Twitter.

(Also note that my edit just added some more detail…on Twitter there are millions of unsavories who will do a 180 on things they’d said previously)

 

[applicious84]

Better to leave original posts and have updated posts linked or something.

Yeah, I wonder how it would work. Like what would happen to the Retweets and likes? And it could get clunky. I'm at least interested to see how it's implemented

 

[turbineseaplane]

Yeah, I wonder how it would work. Like what would happen to the Retweets and likes? And it could get clunky. I'm at least interested to see how it's implemented

I’m guessing they don’t want to store this much data, but my preference would be for the previous post/edits to always be accessible if you dug in a level or two.

It worries me that we are having such casual conversations about something like this.

I know many find Twitter to be a joke, but almost everybody politically important is involved on there.

It’s actually a really great thing to be able to see some of their thoughts and what they put out there and if editing and changing narratives from the past turns into some sort of manipulation tool for the nefarious folks, we have a real problem