For years, Twitter users have been asking for an “edit” or “edit” button that would allow them to edit a post after son mail. And network social always seemed against the idea. But recently, it has become relevant again after Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, became the main shareholder of the platform. Indeed, as soon as the news was formalized, Musk mentioned the “Edit” button in the poll. And later in a tweet, the company indicated that it had indeed been working on this button for a whole year, while assuring that the idea did not come from an Elon Musk poll. In their post, Twitter also gave a small preview of this edit button. Basically, to edit a tweet, you need to click on the “…” menu next to the post.
???? peak.twitter.com/I13wE3eLdn — Twitter Communications (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022
Otherwise, Twitter also announced that testing of the button will be launched in the coming months at Twitter Blue Labs, meaning that as part of these tests, the feature will only be available to subscribers using the company’s paid offering (which also allows NFT to be used as a profile picture). ).
How will the edit button work on Twitter?
In anticipation of Twitter revealing all the details about this upcoming edit button, the developers took a look at the platform app to find out how this new feature works. Already on April 1, developer Nima Owji released capture screenshot showing that Twitter is working on this Edit button. Of course, many thought it was a joke. But in the end it was very serious.
Well… you think I’m joking? https://t.co/mjKFep8yPh — Nima Owji (@nima_owji) April 16, 2022
In a later tweet, Ouji posts a GIF with more details on how the button works. According to this developer, after clicking Edit, the user has the option to edit the text son tweet. On the other hand, it obviously won’t be able to change the audience settings of a tweet (because that setting seems to be inactive).
I recorded a gif from the upcoming #TwitterEdit button! peak.twitter.com/FPIRzzjUAF — Nima Owji (@nima_owji) April 16, 2022
Ouji’s information is also corroborated by another developer, Alessandro Paluzzi, a reverse engineering expert who is regularly quoted by high profile media.tech.
#Twitter works on edit button ???? peak.twitter.com/684nQ5bhnF — Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) April 15, 2022
Unfortunately, these leaks don’t tell us everything. For example, on still not sure if there is a time frame after which he left possible edit tweet. On the other side, on it’s unclear what Twitter will do if the edited tweet has already been quoted and shared by other users. On the other side, on knows that Twitter should keep a history of changes. This is pointed out by Jane Manchun Wong, also a reverse engineer. “Looks like Twitter’s approach to editing a tweet is set in stone. car instead of changing the text of a tweet in the same tweet (with the same id), it recreates a new tweet with the content changed along with a list of old tweets before that modification,” she said in her post.
Looks like Twitter’s approach to editing tweets has not changed since in, instead of changing the text of a tweet in the same tweet (with the same id) it recreates new tweet with modified content along with tea list of old tweets before of this edit — Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 16, 2022