It’s confirmed! Twitter has published a blog affirming that they are indeed testing an edit button. After years of users requesting such a feature, the company sent out a tweet Thursday morning, saying that some users may start seeing edited tweets in their feed because it is testing the long-awaited edit button.
“This is happening and you’ll be okay,” the company said.
Twitter said that the edited tweets are being tested internally right now and would later expand to subscribers of its paid Twitter Blue service later this month. The test will first roll out to Twitter Blue subscribers in New Zealand, with Australia, Canada, and the US to follow. Users outside the test group will also be able to see edited tweets on the platform.
Earlier, in April this year, the company had announced that it is working on an edit button. The announcement came the same day the company confirmed that it would add Elon Musk to its board, and after he polled his followers about whether they’d like an edit button on the platform. While announcing that the edit feature was in the works, Twitter notably added that “no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll.”
Although many users have for years been calling on Twitter to add an edit button — which rivals like Facebook and Instagram offer — others have raised concerns about the potential negative implications of such a feature. Several safety experts have pointed out scenarios where a harmless tweet can go viral and then get edited to include harassment or misinformation, increasing the reach of a tweet that might otherwise not have spread.
Twitter said in its blog post that in this test, tweets are editable “a few times” for up to 30 minutes after they are first posted. Edited tweets will appear with an icon, label, and timestamp to make it obvious that they have been modified, and users can click through to a tweet’s “edit history” to see past versions.
“Like any new feature, we’re intentionally testing Edit Tweet with a smaller group to help us incorporate feedback while identifying and resolving potential issues. This includes how people might misuse the feature.”
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