Nuked The edit button biases toward transparency, adding an edit history for every Tweet. Users will only have 30 minutes to edit their Tweet, and will only be able to do so’a few times’.
Whether Twitter should have an edit button?. Will some users abuse the feature, creating (or manufacturing) viral tweets and then changing them to something problematic?.
The Twitter edit button was a big topic of conversation on the most recent vergecast. You can listen to above or wherever you get podcasts.
Over the last couple of years, Twitter has picked up the pace of its product development in a big way. Now there’s circle, Twitter’s feature for sharing with only your closest friends and followers.
Twitter moved too slowly for more than a decade, and finally started shipping software at impressive speed. Many people encounter tweets as embeds on websites; many use third-party Twitter accounts; many see tweets just as screenshots on cable news. Twitter’s status as the informational nerve center of the Internet makes the stakes higher for how tweets move through the world.
Twitter has to make its own app better so that more people use it, look at ads inside it, and drop $ 5 a month on Twitter blue. Twitter’s cultural impact still vastly exceeds the actual popularity of the app.
Twitter has made noise about being a better partner to third-party developers. Most of the things the company has been building and shipping are n’t even available in TweetDeck, the power-user app Twitter itself owns.
The edit button amounts to a fundamental change to the core unit of Twitter: the Tweet. Twitter suddenly begins to feel like an unreliable Henry.
Twitter has been saying for a couple of years that it wants developers to’drive the future of innovation on Twitter’. Project BlueSky was created within Twitter to build an’open and decentralized standard for social media’. It is already working on tools that would make it easier to move posts or engagement between platforms.
‘we know how important it will be for you to have visibility into edited tweets,’ Twitter dev account tweeted on Thursday.’we’re ready to offer read-support for edited tweets via the Twitter APIs’.
