Twitter Develops New Explainer Notes for Embedded Tweets That Have Been Edited

Hey, keep in mind how Twitter made an enormous deal for years about how tweet modifying wasn’t feasible as a result of the transient nature of tweets meant that even the smallest edit might drastically alter the context of the unique message?

It appears that evidently, regardless of this, Twitter has certainly labored out find out how to present related context to keep away from confusion, not less than in tweet embeds.

As you’ll be able to see in these example tweet embeds, shared by reverse engineering knowledgeable Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter is at present engaged on new messages that might be appended to tweets which have been edited after being embedded on a third-party web site.

The 2 messages are:

‘Final edited [date]’

And:

‘There’s a brand new model of this tweet’

So once more, after years of issues that enabling folks to edit tweets could lead to negative misinterpretations, within the case of edits that alter the unique which means, Twitter appears to have conquered this downside with pretty minimal fuss.

After all, there could also be loads of back-end code work concerned, and it’s not possible for non tweet-folk to know simply how tough that is to really implement. Nevertheless it looks like a reasonably easy answer, which could possibly be added to any tweet, within the app or outdoors of it, that’s been up to date.

Twitter confirmed back in April that it’s certainly engaged on an edit button, after, once more, years of railing towards it. Potential Twitter chief Elon Musk then vaguely claimed responsibility for the change in direction (which Twitter denied), whereas preliminary exams of the choice have additionally included a full edit history and different components to make sure transparency over edited content material.

General, it really looks like tweet modifying is nowhere close to as exhausting to implement as Twitter has made out – however then once more, that’s with out the complete improvement information, and there might be different points with edits in future, even with these further notes and explainers.

Nevertheless it appears to be like fairly logical, fairly straightforward to observe. Which might imply that an edit possibility might be coming quickly – perhaps as one of many final main adjustments earlier than Musk takes over.

If and at any time when which may be.