14 DAY TRIAL // Twitter might finally be working on one important feature that users have been craving for for years – the ability to edit messages after they’ve been published.
According to The Desk, sources inside the company are saying that this particular feature has been at the top of the company’s to-do list. It looks like Twitter is seeking to expand partnerships among media organizations and original content producers.
It is expected that the new feature will be quite similar to the one introduced by Facebook. Basically, it will give you an edit button for a limited period, enabling you to make a few changes without deleting the entire thing and republish it without that annoying typo you missed.
It looks like you’ll only get to do one edit, which means that if you still don’t get everything in the first run, it will be stuck like that and you’ll have to delete it and repost it completely.
Of course, Twitter is quite concerned with users that will take the opportunity to edit messages completely after receiving a lot of retweets and favorites and changing up the entire tweet into an advertisement.
Even worse, news outlets could completely edit out various serious mistakes they’ve made rather than issue a message claiming responsibility. Given how popular a medium Twitter is for individuals seeking out the latest information, this is probably one top concern for the company.
This means that there’s a chance that Twitter will either implement an edit history along with the feature, which will enable others to see the original tweet, or set a character or word limit when editing.
Twitter has kept mum on the issue, but it looks like the feature could be right about ready to be implemented and could hit users in the next few weeks.
If that’s the case, it means that we’ll find out soon enough.