It’s been a running gag for years and a constant annoyance: you type an original tweet, send it off, get the first likes & retweets, but then you see an annoying spelling mistake (damn autocorrect!). What to do? Delete the tweet, rewrite it again and lose all likes and retweets? Or constantly see the spelling mistake and get angry?
But this agony should finally be over, because Twitter actually confirmed the supposed April Fool’s joke: There will be an edit button!
Initial distrust
Of course, no one really took it seriously when Twitter went dry on April 1 of all days announcedthat there will be an edit button:
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The response was accordingly:
Waittt… what’s todays date again? pic.twitter.com/04oi84ad6X
– A $ AP Lerry (@_AsiwajuLerry) April 1, 2022
so whos gonna tell them pic.twitter.com/Ed25McYYez
— BTS Factory ♡🍬 (@BTS_Factss) April 1, 2022
Twitter itself also repeatedly refused to integrate an edit button, users should simply learn to forgive their spelling mistakes themselves:
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First tests of the edit button on Twitter Blue
at Twitter Blue is a paid version of Twitter that offers advanced features, such as sending a tweet a few seconds later: If you still notice an error after sending it, Twitter Blue users can quickly retract the tweet and to improve before it is actually published.
But Twitter’s communications team dropped the bombshell on April 5:
An edit button has been in the works since 2021, and the function will first be tested on Twitter Blue in the next few months.
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In a GIF demonstrate even see the button as it will probably look on the smartphone:
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Jay Sullivan, the company’s VP of Consumer Product, said in a thread on Tuesday that editing was “the most requested Twitter feature in many years.” The company has been investigating how to set up the feature “safely” for the past year.
“Without time limits, controls and transparency over what has been edited, edits could be misused to alter the record of public discussion. Protecting the integrity of this public conversation is our top priority as we undertake this work.”
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That’s why it will take some time before the edit button will be available to everyone. In the meantime, the function is being tested intensively on Twitter Blue and improvements and suggestions are actively being sought so that the function is not misused and a change to the tweet is transparent to everyone.
Also interesting:
Twitter no longer wants to show the accounts of Russian government accounts in its recommendations. Vladimir Putin’s Twitter account, which has 1.7 million followers, is also said to be affected.
Twitter wants to limit the reach of Russian government accounts
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