Twitter has started working on its Edit Tweet feature, which people have been asking the platform for years. But new developments suggest that Twitter is making some changes to the backend that will keep the previous set of Tweets intact before you edit them.
The details have been shared by researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who tweeted that the edit button may have an “irreversible” quality.
It appears that Twitter’s approach to editing tweets is irreversible, such that, instead of replacing the tweet text within the same tweet (same ID), it recreates a new tweet with the modified content, along with He edited with a list of old tweets – Jane Munchun Wong (@wongmjane) 16 April 2022
We’re still not sure what the edit history of your tweet will look like on the front-end to the public. Twitter is most likely to offer an edit button for Twitter Blue users initially, and is expected to bring the feature to everyone sometime in the near future.
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Several people commented on Jen’s post, sharing their thoughts on how the edit tweet function should be used/designed by Twitter’s engineers.
Twitter shared the news of working on the edit tweet feature a few days ago. Before the announcement, Elon Musk ran a poll on the micro-blogging platform, where most people voted in favor of the alternative. But Twitter officially confirmed details about the feature, and noted that it has been working on the tool since last year, and not on Musk’s public survey.
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“We didn’t get the idea from a poll (by Elon Musk). We’re starting testing within @TwitterBlue. Labs in the coming months to find out what works, what doesn’t and what’s possible.”
But experts are concerned about how the Edit Tweet feature will work. People can easily rewrite their sentences, and change the context of any content to claim it is viral.
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So, the Tweet history option makes sense, but until Twitter shows us a live example of the feature, it’s going to be hard to say whether this mechanism will work for users in the future and prove it foolish, and who tweets. are past.
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