You complained and complained and moaned. And no, you don’t get the “Edit Tweet” button, but Twitter is testing something almost as good. Will do happy?
Users have been asking for it for a long time and Twitter has repeatedly refused to implement it, a tool that would allow them to change the content of tweets already sent. However, soon, users may no longer be embarrassed in the following best way (or perhaps in an absolutely superior way): taking back tweets before actually going live.
On 9to5Mac, reverse engineering and prolific data mining expert Jane Manchun Wong discovered that Twitter is working on a “unsubscribe” timer for tweets, which seems to give users about five seconds after tweeting to rethink if it was actually a good idea. This is not the same as an edit button, but it helps solve the problem of hitting the send and the immediate realization of a message has a grammatical error, the wrong user replied, it was just bad advice, or was downright ignorant.
It’s unclear when the tweet cancellation feature could be launched or if it’s just a test that may never reach users, but Twitter has been in an engineering period until late. Many of the features announced or released in recent months are clones of other popular sites and applications, including their own clones of Clubhouse audio chat hangout, disappearing Instagram Stories, Monetizable Substack newsletters, and Patreon season ticket.
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The edit button was one of Twitter’s most requested features, but CEO Jack Dorsey said last year it would be almost certain never be implemented because it’s not like you could take back a text message. (The difference here is that the stakes of tweeting can be somewhat higher than texting, depending on how many people read it. And Wayback Machine doesn’t forgive.) Are Other obvious disadvantages of an editing function, such as the certainty of one of its biggest uses, would be trolling other Twitter users, enticing them to respond to or quote tweets that suddenly say something completely different.
“I started as an SMS, a text messaging service. And, as you all know, when you send a text, you can’t really take it, “said Dorsey. in a YouTube video when discussing the prospects of an edit button. “We wanted to keep that atmosphere, that feeling, in the early days … We probably never will.”
For now, you’ll just have to make sure you don’t hit the referral at all, which is probably best.