Twitter is allegedly working on an edit button, which has been demanded by users including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, but the microblogging network will reportedly preserve a digital record of your previous tweets.
Jane Manchun Wong, an app researcher and reverse engineer, said in a tweet that the edit button had a “immutable” property.
“It appears that Twitter’s approach to Update Tweet is immutable,” Wong said late Saturday. “Rather than mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the corrected content, along with a list of the old Tweets previous to that edit.”
It’s yet unclear how users will see a tweet’s modification history.
The edit option will first be available only to Twitter Blue users, but it will subsequently be made available to all users.
Alessandro Paluzzi, an app researcher, also shared pictures of the new edit tool, demonstrating how the “Edit Tweet” option may appear in the three-dot menu on the right side of your tweets.
Twitter stated earlier this week that it is working on allowing users to edit their tweets after they have been sent in order to correct typos and mistakes.
Twitter Blue subscribers will be the first to try the functionality in the “coming months,” according to the microblogging network.
“Now that everyone is asking,” the corporation stated, “sure, we’ve been working on an edit function since last year!”
“We didn’t draw our inspiration from a survey (by Elon Musk). In the coming months, we’ll begin testing within @TwitterBlue. Labs to see what works, what doesn’t, and what’s potential “Twitter made a statement.
The edit button has long been the most requested Twitter feature, according to Jay Sullivan, the company’s VP of consumer development.
“People want to be able to correct (often humiliating) errors, typos, and heated takes in real time. They are now getting around this by deleting and retweeting “Sullivan explained.
“Edit might be exploited to modify the record of the public debate” without things like time restrictions, controls, and openness about what has been modified, he said.
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