A new test on Twitter is currently delighting users: With the undo feature, users would have time to recall the tweets they have sent before anyone can read them. Twitter users will hardly get closer to an edit button.
How often has it happened to you that you discovered a mistake almost at the moment of sending a message or publishing a post and would like to undo the click on the “Post” button? Twitter could soon introduce a solution for this situation in the form of an undo timer. This would appear as soon as a tweet was posted. This gives users around five seconds to recall their tweet. Reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered the test and showed in a tweet how Undo could work on Twitter.
The function is ultimately similar to that on WhatsApp, for example, where sent messages can be deleted for a few minutes if the other person has not already read them. Of course, users could delete their tweets beforehand, but there was never any certainty that the content had not already been read by someone. With the new undo function, tweets could be recalled before anyone can see them. The timer means a kind of time to think about it. It would make sense – and this is not clearly visible on Wong’s GIF – if the tweet is still displayed during these five seconds. This is the only way, for example, that typing errors could be detected that one would regret later. The feature has not yet been rolled out and there is no statement from Twitter that this will be the case anytime soon.
