Twitter has posted its first edited tweet, displaying how the posts will look when the function is rolled out.
The social media firm despatched the tweet yesterday, with a “Last Edited” time and date on the backside of the put up.
Users can click on that hyperlink and examine all the edited historical past of the tweet.
Once the edit button goes dwell, it’ll first turn into obtainable to Twitter Blue customers, the corporate’s $4.99 premium platform that gives entry to the most recent options reminiscent of the power to undo tweets, ad-free articles, bookmark folders, and extra.
Twitter’s edit button has had a tumultuous historical past. The firm introduced the button was being launched in September this 12 months, saying that tweets will be capable of be edited “a few times” in a 30-minute window instantly after they’re printed, and edited tweets will seem with an icon, timestamp and label to make it clear the unique put up has been modified.
The label, Twitter mentioned, is important as a result of put up historical past helps “protect the integrity of the conversation and create a publicly accessible record of what was said”.
Twitter has mentioned it’s the firm’s most requested function, however Lewis Wiltshire, the previous head of sport at Twitter, mentioned introducing an edit button could be a “mistake” due to Twitter’s affect.
“It’s one of those things that people call for when they want to sound like they understand tech products but don’t really,” he posted on the platform in response to the information.
“An edit button would be welcomed by a small percentage of hardcore users, weaponised by a larger and more dangerous group of bad people, and largely ignored by the majority of people in between.
Elon Musk, who is attempting to back out of buying Twitter after making an offer for it, drew attention to the feature by posting a poll in April 2022.
“Do you want an edit button?” he wrote on Twitter, asking individuals to vote sure or no.
Reacting to the ballot, Twitter’s chief govt officer Parag Agarwal cautioned customers to “vote carefully” and that “the consequences of this poll [would] be important. Please vote carefully.”
However, The Independent understands that, even on the time of these tweets, Twitter had been engaged on the edit button for months prior.
