Twitter Edit Button is Coming, But There’s a Catch

Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 05 September 2022, 01:09 am

Twitter is soon adding its highly-awaited feature for the application, and that is the "edit tweet" button that would help in changing some elements of the post after its publishing online. Instead of having to delete the tweet for a typo or wrong information, users would have the chance to alter what they think is inaccurate from their published tweet.

However, there are significant speculations on how Twitter's edit button will change the platform as a whole, especially in its future operations.

Twitter Edit Button is Coming for Twitter Blue Subscribers

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Twitter's blog teased the upcoming edit button for users to utilize in editing their published tweets online, without needing to delete and start all over again for correcting certain information in a tweet. However, it is important to note that it will initially arrive to Twitter Blue subscribers to test the feature first, not exactly a release for all.

It is coming this September, but there is no information as to how long it would test on the subscription-only experience before coming for all.

Twitter Edit Button to Change Platform's Future

The Verge reported that the Twitter edit tweet button is coming soon to the world, but it is a significant test for the platform to add this new feature that will change the way it operates online. The report claims that "re-inventing" the tweet is "a hard thing to do," and it only shows why it is not available since the beginning for users.

Tweets published online have no way to edit the feature and it is like the published media is permanently posted on the platform without a way to change it. There are speculations that users may abuse the feature once it arrives on the platform, but there are speculations on Twitter's number of edits that will allow changing the tweet.

Twitter Edit Button: Why is it Important?

Spoken words to other people do not have a way to retract what was already said, and for the longest time, people have been focusing on ways to improve communication through technology to manage it better. Technology made it possible for people to unsend or take back what they initially said, one example would be Facebook Messenger in its 2018 update.

However, for the longest time now, Twitter users have been requesting this feature from the company, especially in retracting messages or tweets that should not have been published online. While there is a way to remove this by deleting the said tweet, users still want the edit tweet button that would help them alter several elements on it.

Some people may focus on correcting typographical errors or changing information to update its facts, but it still is a feature that the public wishes to get for their platform use.

For now, users would get the Twitter edit button from the Blue subscription platform, but this is only a temporary testing stage for the feature. Speculations on Twitter's future with the edit button are centering on the massive changes that would take place soon, especially as it would have future operations would see a significant shift.

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Written by Isaiah Richard