‘This is happening and you’ll be okay’, the social media giant posted
Twitter has started testing its eagerly anticipated edit button, it announced this afternoon.
Users will be given an option to ‘Edit Tweet’ in a drop-down context menu.
It is thought people will get 30 minutes after they publish to use the button before the tweet becomes uneditable.
The roll-out is expected to start as soon as this month, the social media giant said.
https://twitter.com/Twitter/status/1565318587736285184?s=20&t=TzZfTXygu7RQeu2fqIkyCQ
In May, Jane Manchun Wong gave a preview of what the button will look like.
The handy drop-down will come as light relief to anyone who suffers from the odd grammatical howler.
It might also safeguard you from drunk posting, although you’ll have to sober up pretty quickly in order to make necessary edits!
the current unreleased version of Edit Tweet reuploads media (images, videos, GIFs, etc) instead of reusing them. an inefficient use of the bandwidth and media processing power, might be lossy too. plus it turns my video into an image (mishandling media type) pic.twitter.com/HjoIA0CZhO
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 2, 2022
Response to the news has been mixed so far, although most people seem to welcome the news:
JUST IN: Finally, Twitter starts testing the much-in-demand edit button
Twitter users will be able to edit tweets a few times for 30 minutes after they have been posted on the platform@tsuvik ✍️https://t.co/6jE1AqX8Di— Chandra R. Srikanth (@chandrarsrikant) September 1, 2022
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