Twitter's future Edit button functionality could maintain track of the tweet's edit history. Jane Manchun Wong, a well-known app researcher, explained how the edit function may be immutable in a tweet, implying that Twitter could make a new tweet with the altered information while maintaining the old version.
Wong took to Twitter to share some additional information about Twitter's upcoming feature that will enable users to edit their tweets.
Twitter, it appears, will not simply edit old tweets published by users. Instead, it will generate a new tweet with the modified content and keep a list or record of the user's previous tweets. Jane explains in a series of subsequent tweets that "Tweets are always immutable."
While it has not been confirmed whether Twitter will make the Tweet history accessible for all users, the immutability of the tweets may be there to alleviate some of the concerns raised about how the edit button may change the way Twitter works, but not for the better.
Twitter's move to create a new ID for the altered tweet could also mean that tweets included in websites would stay in their original versions instead of the edited versions, protecting third-party websites from potentially edited tweets.
Twitter previously confirmed that it has been investigating how to include an 'Edit' feature since last year and that testing will begin in the coming months. Before the Twitter confirmation, SpaceX founder Elon Musk had generated a poll on Twitter asking to see if an Edit button should be introduced, briefly after becoming a majority shareholder in the company.
Twitter insisted that the button had been under consideration for some time and that the decision was not influenced by the poll.
According to Jay Sullivan, Twitter's Head of Product, the company will begin testing this within Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months. In a thread, he stated that "without things like time limits, controls, and so on,"
It's worth nothing that the edit button may be available just to Twitter Blue users. Let's talk about the Twitter Edit button now that it's out of the way. Customers will be able to access the Edit Tweet functionality by clicking on the three-dot menu that displays a tweet once it has been published, as shown in Paluzzi's screenshots.
When people click on it, the tweet will open in an editable environment where they may make any changes they want. Users can publish the tweet using the Update button once it has been completed.
