Looks like Twitter has finally decided to bless its users with what they’ve been wishing for all along. On Tuesday, the company announced that it’s working on an edit button that will allow users to edit their tweets after posting them.
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Once introduced, the new edit feature will allow users to fix any typos or errors in a tweet without having to repost the tweet. According to a video shared by Twitter, the edit button will appear in the dropdown menu of a published tweet besides the delete and pin buttons. Twitter plans to begin testing the feature initially with Twitter Blue subscribers in the upcoming months, the company said.
In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Jay Sullivan, the company’s Vice President of consumer products, said that editing has been the most requested Twitter feature for many years. He further added that the company has been looking into building the feature since last year.
2/ Edit has been the most requested Twitter feature for many years. People want to be able to fix (sometimes embarrassing) mistakes, typos and hot takes in the moment. They currently work around this by deleting and tweeting again.
— Jay Sullivan (@jaysullivan) April 5, 2022
The company had officially shared the news on April 1st, but it was taken as a joke at the time. Twitter’s product lead, Michael Sayman, later referred to the tweet as the company’s “official statement” on the feature. Notably, the announcement came a day after Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, disclosed that he had bought a 9.2 percent stake in the company, making him the platform’s largest shareholder.
