Twitter’s edit button is already happening

It’s a feature that Twitter users have been asking for since it became a meme, but now the legendary “edit button” has become a reality. Twitter has announced that it is allowing users to edit their tweets after they are posted. The idea is that you’ll be able to fix any typos or mistakes in a tweet without sacrificing any responses, retweets, or likes you’ve already accumulated. Twitter plans to start testing the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in the “coming months,” The company said Tuesday.

Jay Sullivan, the company’s vice president of consumer products, said editing was “the most requested feature on Twitter for many years.” On Tuesday’s topic. The company has been studying how to create the feature in a “safe way” since last year.

“Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been modified, the modification can be misused to alter public conversation history,” He said. “Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our highest priority as we engage with this business.”

People have been asking for a mod button for so long that it has become like a constant joke. “Tweets, but editable” has become the standard response to spotting a typo in a popular tweet. But former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has been reluctant to add such a feature in the past. During talk in 2018Dorsey expressed concern that the edit button might allow users to change the meaning of a tweet after it was widely shared, and in 2020 said Twitter “maybe neverAdd feature.

Concerns like this have consistently surfaced around edit button requests. But like my colleague Casey Newton Argue in 2017Several other platforms, including Facebook, Medium and Instagram, already allow users to edit their posts, and the features have not been accompanied by widespread abuse. But that doesn’t mean the abuse hasn’t been heard before. according to Former META Chief Security Officer Alex StamosFacebook’s edit feature has been abused in the past, in one case to aid in a cryptocurrency scam.

Twitter’s opinion on the edit button appears to have changed after Parag Agrawal became CEO. On April 1, the annual Corporate Lies Day, the official Twitter account said that “Work on the edit button.Although it was considered a joke at the time, Twitter product lead Michael Sayman later referred to the tweet as the company.official speechin feature.

Days later, after it emerged that Elon Musk had a Bought 9.2 percent of the company’s sharesthe first significant tweet of the CEO of Tesla was Check out the opinions of his followers On whether Twitter should add an edit button. 73.4 percent were in favor.

The company already has an undo feature that lets you recall a tweet before sending it, although it’s only available For Twitter Blue subscribers.