You complained and you complained and moaned. And no, you don’t get the “Edit Tweet” button, but Twitter is trying something almost as good. He will are you happy
Users have long complained, and Twitter has repeatedly refused to implement, a tool that allows them to modify the content of tweets already sent. However, soon users could stop being embarrassed in the following best way (or perhaps in a totally superior way): recover their tweet before they are published.
Per 9to5Mac, reverse engineering and prolific data mining expert Jane Manchun Wong has discovered that Twitter is working on a “undo post” timer for tweets, which seems to give users about five seconds after tweeting to rethink if it was actually a good idea. This is not the same as an edit button, but it does help solve the problem of pressing send and immediately realizing that a message has a grammatical error, replied the wrong user, it was just ill-advised, it was totally ignorant.
It’s unclear when the feature of undoing a tweet can be deployed or if it’s just a test that may never reach users, but Twitter has been ingenious to the end. Many of the features that have been announced or deployed in recent months are clones of other popular sites and applications, including their own clones of Clubhouse audio chat hangout, Instagram Stories disappear, Monetizable Substack newsletters, i Patreon Subscriptions.
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The edit button has been one of Twitter’s most requested features, but CEO Jack Dorsey said last year he sure will. it will never be implemented because a text message cannot be retrieved either. (The difference here is that betting for tweeting can be a little higher than texting, depending on how many people read it. And the Wayback Machine doesn’t forgive.) There are other obvious drawbacks to an editing feature, such as the certainty that one of its most important uses would be the trolling of other Twitter users, enticing them to reply to or post quote messages that suddenly say something completely different .
“We started as a text messaging service, SMS. And as you all know, when you send a text, you won’t be able to retrieve it, ”Dorsey said in a YouTube video when discussing the prospects of an edit button. “We wanted to keep that atmosphere, that feeling in the early days … We probably never will.”
For now, you’ll just have to settle for pretending you’ve never shipped, which is probably best.