Twitter revealed on Tuesday that it is working on a way for users to edit their 280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the fact that edit-function supporter Elon Musk was just revealed as the company’s largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible”.
So, it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Company spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
What is an Edit button on Twitter?
Edit button is an experimental feature that is under development in the Twitter Labs to bring to the table the much-requested edit option to its users. Whether there should be an option to edit a tweet after sending it is a topic with polarized opinions. The stalwarts of immutable tweets advocate that tweets remain unchangeable to deny any user the opportunity to re-word any opinion they previously shared after it explodes on the platform. Until now, Twitter also stood firm by its opinion to make users take responsibility for the words and comments they choose to send out, just like being responsible for the games you play at real money pokies Australia.
These thoughts inform us that the ‘editability’ of a tweet entails concerns that are much deeper than correcting typos. Liberal and uncensored access to the feature could allow a user to revise an originally controversial tweet into an unsuspecting one to hide their miscreant attributes.
However, a good majority of its users wish for the edit feature on the simpler, innocuous ground as correcting spelling mistakes that escape one’s notice before sending the tweet out. Things didn’t look too promising for the advocates of edit feature on TikTok until the CEO seat of Twitter was recently officially handed over to Parag Agarwal. Guess we can see it as part of the reforms that inevitably follow new regimes. Add to the mix the innovative brains like Elon Musk who constantly challenges restrictions and boundaries, the edit feature was more of a matter of when than if.
Is the ‘edit’ feature on Twitter confirmed?
On April 1st, 2022, Twitter Communications’ (official account) had posted what seemed to be a prank about an editing button that was in the workshop, everybody with access to the platform saw it including users of online casinos for real money, and it was brushed aside as a joke.
However, they followed up the tweet addressing the hot question to confirm that an edit button is indeed a project in progress and expected to be rolled out soon to the privileged group of subscribed users of the app. A lot is still tentative about its attributes considering the explosive magnitude of disapproval towards the feature in itself. The official word is that the developers have been more than toying with the edit button for over a year, experimenting with many nuances to generate a design and functioning that would satisfy both the advocates and protesters. For instance, Twitter has built its long-standing reputation on the very essence of the rawness of tweets. Twitter spats are so common especially because of how uncensored and unchangeable the tweets are once you tweet them.