Twitter Is Adding An Edit Button

Twitter has announced that it’s working on an edit button. “The idea is that you’ll be able to fix any typos or errors in a tweet without sacrificing any replies, retweets, or likes it’s already accrued,” reports The Verge. From the report: Twitter plans to begin testing the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in “the coming months,” the company said Tuesday. Jay Sullivan, the company’s VP of consumer product, said that editing has been “the most requested Twitter feature for many years” in a thread on Tuesday. The company has been looking into how to build the feature “in a safe manner” since last year. “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation,” he said. “Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”

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