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

[nathan_reilly]

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.

gotcha, of course...he joined the board then ponied up bc their projects were totally cash starved and on life-support!

 

[GeoStructural]

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

I find it to be a great source of nrop. Give it a try.

 

[Schismz]

Hahahahahahahaha. Pass the popcorn, this should be entertaining.

 

[ds2000]

That Aston in your pic is dope. Just wanted to tell you.

Thanks, she's in much better condition now than when I first had her too (in that photo).

 

[svish]

Very good. Hopefully it will be available for all once it launches and not just for Twitter Blue subscribers.

 

[Bow Commander]

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

Came here say this, but knew in my heart it had already been said.

 

[Solomani]

What’s a “Twitter”?

It's that yellow bird that was always outsmarting Sylvester.

 

[Razorpit]

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is probably worthwhile but it won't change the large number of tweets that are impulsive, vitriolic, and then quickly withdrawn (or now, modified).

You forgot wrong.

 

[norwaypianoman]

I wonder if Twitter has understood yet that an Edit button is not much worth.

If you edit a tweet, you will have to reset the like counter to zero. Unless you would be stealing someones like.

It is much better for media transperancy, if you just wrote a new one, and deleted or archived/greyed out the old one. But editing it, would create new problems - like peers - forcing people to edit tweets, without anyone being able to see the peer pressure - or analyze it ?

 

[Botts85]

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

Facebook has edit history disclosure for public comments. It's a decent way to approach the problem.

 

[the8thark]

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).

Agreed 100%.

The issue with twitter is not the platform. It is the general attitude of the users and those who run the platform. This addition changes nothing in this respect.

 

[dysamoria]

Remember when beta testing was a paid (or at least free software-benefitted) task? Now users pay to beta test? Uh. Neat?

I keep waiting to see what peak tech industry user abuse is, but they keep raising the sky.

 

[Bandaman]

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


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I'm amazed he wanted to look like that on purpose. The ol' Charles Manson look.

 

[eclinton]

Don't be surprised when Elon is CEO of twitter and sues his way into being called a "Twitter Co-founder"

...worked for Tesla

 

[sudo-sandwich]

It would be better to add a “Buy Tesla” button. I wish someone at Twitter had the power to make this happen…

I appreciate the "buy Tesla" phrasing. Not "buy a Tesla." You're buying stock in the company, not a car.

 

[WilliApple]

I thought that it was an April fools prank lol.