Leaks show that Twitter is working on the long-awaited edit button but it will come with a history to keep track of changes made.
The first leak came courtesy of Jane Manchun Wong, a security researcher and reverse engineer. According to Wong’s Tweet, the edit feature will only duplicate the new post but keep a trail of the old one.
Looks like Twitter’s approach to Edit Tweet is immutable, as in, instead of mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the amended content, along with the list of the old Tweets prior of that edit
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 16, 2022
This is something like the original Facebook edit function that shows edit history. With this in place, Tweeps still bear a level of accountability for their original post.
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Meanwhile, another leaker, researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, posted a screenshot of what the edit option would look like when it arrives.
#Twitter is working on the edit button 👀 pic.twitter.com/684nQ5bhnF
— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) April 15, 2022
In addition to this, Paluzzi also said that the feature will first come to Twitter Blue users before a general rollout.
Of course, Twitter is tightlipped over this matter and if an edit button is coming, the company will likely sit on such news until it has something to show users.
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