Twitter’s former Chief Design Officer voiced his support for an edit button back in 2021. And based on my own reporting about Twitter, I suspect members of its design team have been creating ...

For years, the platform has held out against editing tweets. Until now. An edit button is imminent—but tricky questions remain about how it can be implemented without causing chaos.

But the pro-edit camp could soon see their wishlist granted, as the company is in the process of testing that functionality. "If you see an edited Tweet it's because we're testing the edit button ...

Any design choice by a social media platform can and will be abused by bad actors. An edit button could be used to circumvent content moderation policies and measures.” ...

Twitter informed its users through, what else but a tweet, that some users can start seeing edited tweets in their feeds as the company tests its long-awaited edit button.

An edit button would also, in theory, make high-profile users whose tweets garner mass attention even bigger targets for hacking, if bad actors know the tweets are guaranteed a mass audience.

In the video Q&A, Dorsey expands on this thinking, noting that the decision to leave out an edit button has its roots in Twitter’s original design. “We started as an SMS, text message service.

Context On April 1, 2022, the official account of Twitter tweeted that it had been working on an "edit" button in what many users thought was an April Fools' Day prank. Four days later, the ...

Will an edit button change Twitter’s unique brand? There may be ways to ameliorate this, such as only allowing edits within a short time of posting, but it is surely a consideration for the company.

App leaker Alessandro Paluzzi posted, with a hint of irony on Twitter/X, a screenshot showing an edit button for Threads. However, the button comes with a time limit of five minutes, meaning users ...