Can You Edit a Tweet? Sure, Kind Of.

Not with the ability to edit a Tweet may not seem to be a huge deal, however it’s. Should you’ve ever used Twitter, you recognize precisely what I imply. 

And even when you haven’t ever used Twitter, let me remind you of this:

However now the times of typo-fueled media chaos are over with the addition of Twitter’s most anticipated characteristic: Edit Tweet! Properly, form of.

Twitter announced that testing the enhancing characteristic has gone nicely, so that they’re shifting ahead with a extra extensively accessible rollout.

The best way to edit a Tweet

Step 1 – Choose your Tweet and faucet the 3 dots (…) to open the “Extra” menu. 

Step 2 – Faucet on the Edit Tweet possibility.

Step 3 – Make your edits after which faucet Replace.

That’s it! However there are some limits to bear in mind:

• Tweets can solely be edited with half-hour from the time of posting
• Tweets can solely be edited as much as 5 instances
• Edit Tweet is proscribed to Twitter Blue subscribers in sure areas (for now)

Tweet Edit Historical past

Simply since you’ve edited a Tweet, doesn’t imply that your errors, typos, or unhealthy jokes are gone endlessly.

Twitter will now label any Tweet that has been edited with an Edited icon that exhibits when the final edit was made.

Clicking on it is going to pull up a historical past of earlier variations of the Tweet, so everybody can see what was modified and when.

plus, a model historical past is accessible on each edited Tweet so you recognize what modified pic.twitter.com/E3eZSj7NsL

— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) October 3, 2022

On the extra technical facet, Twitter has confirmed that the Twitter API will make metadata from Tweets accessible in order that builders can have entry to enhancing and replace historical past info.

Edit Tweet is rolling out! And with that, edited Tweet metadata is now accessible on the Twitter API v2 to be able to start to retrieve edited Tweets and the related historical past and fields.https://t.co/RHVB83emI6

— Twitter Dev (@TwitterDev) October 3, 2022

Twitter has said that the Edit Tweet characteristic is designed to permit customers to repair typos, embrace forgotten hashtags, and add lacking media information.

The bounds on edits and the displayable model historical past have been designed to alleviate issues round transparency on a platform utilized by main information organizations and politicians to make main bulletins.

Regardless of many loud voices begging for the edit characteristic, Twitter is being very conservative in its testing and rollout schedule, possible in response to the above issues.

Assuming all goes nicely with the Twitter Blue customers, anticipate the Edit Tweet characteristic to be launched to all Twitter customers within the close to future.

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