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You moan and moan as you moan. No, you won’t get the “Edit Tweet” button, but Twitter is almost testing something good. I will make are you happy?
Users have always requested the implementation of a tool, and Twitter has repeatedly declined, that allows them to edit the content of tweets already sent. However, users may soon be able to stop embarrassing themselves in the next best (or maybe even better) way: recover Tweets before it goes live.
for each 9to5Mac, Reverse engineering expert and prolific data miner Jin Manchun Wong Discover Twitter is working on an “undo” timer for tweets that will give users about five seconds after tweeting to consider whether this is a really good idea. This is not the same as the Edit button, but it helps to solve the problem of pressing send and instantly perceiving a message with a grammatical error. It was a response to the wrong user. He was just unwise Or was it Completely ignorant.
It’s unclear when an undo feature will come out or if it’s just a test that might not reach users at all, but Twitter has been in a tech frenzy lately. Much of the features announced or released in the past few months are copies of other popular websites and apps, including their own versions of Voice chat in a hangout clubAnd the Instagram stories are disappearingAnd the The Substack newsletter that can be monetized, And the Patreon-Subscriptions.
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The edit button has been one of Twitter’s most requested features, but CEO Jack Dorsey said last year it will almost certainly Never be executed Because you cannot recover a text message either. (The difference is that the risk of tweets can be slightly higher than texting depending on how many people read them. The wayback machine is also unforgiving.) exist Other obvious downsides to the editing feature, like knowing that one of its biggest uses is to troll other Twitter users by tricking them into replying to or quoting posts that suddenly say something completely different.
“We started as an SMS-SMS service. And as you all know, if you send a text message, you really can’t get it back, ”Dorsey said. In a YouTube video When discussing options for the Edit button. “We wanted to keep that feeling for the early days … we probably never would.”
For now, all you have to do is pretend you’ve never hit the submit button, which is probably the best.
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