After years of customers clamouring for such a characteristic, Twitter is lastly testing edited tweets.
Twitter stated in — the place else? — a tweet Thursday morning that some customers might begin seeing edited tweets of their feed as a result of it's testing the long-awaited edit button.
"That is occurring and you will be okay," the corporate stated.
In a Thursday weblog submit, the corporate stated edited tweets are being examined internally and that the characteristic would broaden to subscribers of its paid Twitter Blue service later this month. Customers outdoors the take a look at group will even be capable to see edited tweets on the platform.
Twitter stated in April that it had been testing an edit characteristic for a yr, and that it will be accessible to Twitter Blue subscribers inside months.
The announcement got here the identical day the corporate introduced that it will add Elon Musk to its board, and after he polled his followers about whether or not they'd like an edit button on the platform.
When it confirmed the edit characteristic was within the works, Twitter additionally stated, "no, we did not get the thought from a ballot".
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Musk later pulled out of the board seat provide, agreed to purchase Twitter outright, moved to terminate the acquisition deal and now could be preventing a lawsuit from Twitter that seeks to compel him to comply with by with the deal.
Though many individuals have for years been calling on Twitter so as to add an edit button — which rivals like Fb and Instagram provide — others have raised issues in regards to the potential implications of such a characteristic.
Security specialists requested, for instance: What if a innocent tweet went viral after which was edited to incorporate harassment or misinformation, rising the attain of a tweet that may in any other case not have unfold?
Twitter stated in its Thursday weblog submit that on this take a look at, tweets will be capable to be edited "just a few instances" for as much as half-hour after they're first posted.
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Edited tweets will seem with an icon, label and timestamp to make it apparent they've been modified, and customers can click on by to a tweet's "edit historical past" to see previous variations.
"Like all new characteristic, we're deliberately testing Edit Tweet with a smaller group to assist us incorporate suggestions whereas figuring out and resolving potential points. This consists of how folks would possibly misuse the characteristic."