Twitter edit button is finally coming, testing to begin soon

Twitter has confirmed that it has been working on an edit button, a feature that users have been requesting for a long time to fix not just typos but also the wrong context in their tweets. But, at the same time, Twitter is concerned that the edit button could be misused to “alter the record of the public conversation.” The announcement comes nearly a day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who recently acquired a 9.2 per cent stake passively in Twitter, ran a poll asking his followers if they wanted an edit button. Famous for shitposting, Musk’s poll was apparently taken casually by his followers, but when Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal chimed in, users were convinced that there are chances an edit button is on its way. Twitter said it is planning to begin testing the edit button feature for Twitter Blue subscribers — who pay to use exclusive features on the microblogging platform — in “the coming months.” Twitter Comms also posted a GIF showing what the edit button would look like, but keep in mind that it will undergo testing before it is available to everyone. Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s VP of consumer product, explained that while an edit button has been “the most requested Twitter feature for many years,” it could be “misused to alter the record of the public conversation” without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited.