In a move that will definitely divide users into at least two sides, Twitter has announced that it’s testing an “Edit Tweet” feature to, obviously, allow users edit a tweet after it has been posted.
In a blog post on Thursday, Twitter announced that the feature is being tested by its team internally, and will soon be expanded to Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter wants users to “think of it as a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add missed tags, and more.”
Here are 3 things you need to know about the Edit Tweet feature:
- You’ll be able to edit your tweet a few times within a 30 minutes period after publication.
- Edited tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label to make it clear that the original tweet has been modified.
- Edited tweets will also show you their “Edit History” with past versions of the tweet when you tap the label.
Twitter seems to have handled adding an edit button about as well as possible. The edit button biases toward transparency, adding an edit history for every tweet and a big notice saying a tweet has been edited. Users will only have 30 minutes to edit their tweet, and will only be able to do so “a few times.” Twitter’s surely going to be looking closely at those numbers in its testing to see exactly how editable tweets should really be. It’s only coming to paying subscribers of Twitter Blue, and the test is going to start out small. Twitter is being as careful as can be on this one, and seems to have landed in the right place.
Source: starrfm