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Elon Musk could enable Twitter’s edit button for everyone
Twitter’s edit feature only turned from myth to something people could actually use in October, but it might be available to everyone very soon. In what might be one of the first big product changes under Elon Musk’s Twitter regime, the company will be opening up the edit feature to all users as early as this week, according to Bloomberg.
Currently, tweet editing is locked behind the company’s soon-to-change $4.99 Twitter Blue subscription that’s only available for users in a few countries, and Twitter has stressed that the edit feature is technically still in testing. Musk seems to think it’s ready for everyone and is also planning a big overhaul of Twitter Blue that could be rolled out in the coming days.
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Elon Musk wants to make Twitter’s edit button free for everyone, report says
Twitter may soon charge users $8 a month for verification, but Elon Musk reportedly plans to give all users a long-requested feature for free: the edit button. According to Platformer’s Casey Newton, the move is in the works alongside the more sweeping changes to Twitter Blue that Musk previewed Tuesday.
For now, Twitter’s edit button is only available to subscribers in the current version of Twitter Blue, which costs $4.99 a month and is only live in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The feature gives users a 30-minute window to change their tweets, and includes a revision history.
Musk so far hasn’t publicly talked (or tweeted) about his plans for the edit button since taking control of the company. But the feature was one of the first Twitter-related topics he raised after he first acquired a large stake in the company this spring. And Twitter confirmed it was working on the feature just hours after Musk polled his followers on whether the platform should have an edit feature. (Millions of his followers vote “yse” in the poll — Twitter has previously said an edit button has long been its most-requested feature.)
At the same time, Musk is also planning more substantial changes to Twitter’s subscription service. He’s said he qill allow anyone to get verified if they pay $8 a month, and will also show subscribers fewer ads. He’s also reportedly planning to nix the ad-free articles that’s currently included as perk with Twitter Blue, but wants to work with publishers to allow subscribers behind their paywalls.
What actually happens when you edit a tweet?
You can edit tweets now! But it’s not quite clear what that even means.
It’s been nearly 16 years since Twitter users started asking for an edit button, and seven years since Twitter’s at-the-time CEO told Kim Kardashian that an edit button was a “great idea.” It looked like it might never happen, but Twitter has, at long last, been dragged, kicking and screaming, to the fulfillment of this simple request. Except it’s not a simple request at all.
Edit button skeptics have long voiced their critiques of this idea. Apart from the hard-line view that tweets are final and that’s what’s actually good about them, there were practical concerns. These are best expressed as what-ifs: What if a powerful person edits an offensive tweet and unfairly changes the record? What if someone hits ‘Like’ on the original tweet, but no longer feels that way about the edited version? What happens to replies and quote tweets if the entire thrust of the original tweet has changed?
So here are some answers. Note: I conducted my tests on the desktop version of Twitter.
How can I edit a tweet?
For the time being, the only people who can edit tweets are subscribers to Twitter Blue, which costs $5 per month. If you subscribe and click the hamburger button on the top-right corner of one of your tweets on your desktop, the fabled “Edit Tweet” button will automatically materialize in the dropdown menu, but only if you do this within 30 minutes of posting said tweet. After 30 minutes, your typos are locked in forever.
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The first time you use the feature you’ll get this helpful warning saying that since Twitter Blue users in some countries don’t yet have access to the edit button, you might be dropping hints as to where you are by editing tweets. This would certainly give me pause if I didn’t want other users to know my location.
Credit: Mike Pearl / Mashable
Why can’t I edit my tweet, even though I’m paying for the feature?
Some tweets can’t be edited, even inside the 30-minute window.
First of all, you’re only allowed five edits. If you just can’t seem to get a tweet the way you want it, and you keep editing and editing, then once you get to edit number five and hit “Update,” you’ll get a warning saying you’re about to be cut off.
Credit: Mike Pearl / Mashable
After that, the edit button on that tweet will disappear.
You also can’t edit your replies to other people’s tweets.
According to my tests, the edit button will also disappear on a tweet if you self-reply to that tweet, and start to create a thread. That is: The original tweet at the top of the thread won’t be editable, and neither will the replies.
Will I get to keep my likes if I edit a tweet?
Yes.
But there’ll be a publicly available version history of the tweet with timestamps. This documents which version of the tweet earned each like.
Credit: Mike Pearl / Mashable
So if, for instance, you like someone’s tweet saying “Like this tweet if you love eating nachos,” and then they edit the tweet so it says “Like this tweet if you love eating garbage,” there’s a public record of what you were actually expressing affection for with your like.
The version history will also show which version of a tweet a user replied to.
What happens if someone retweets or quote tweets something, and it gets edited to change the original meaning?
I ethically tested this by tweeting a request for quote tweets, with a warning to other users that if they quote tweeted it, I would change it to “Quote tweet this if you love eating garbage.” A helpful follower promptly quote-tweeted, and I edited the tweet as promised. The resulting quote tweet retained my original tweet text, now gray instead of black, with an added note from Twitter saying there was a new version.
Clicking anywhere in the quoted tweet allows any user to see the edited version, but there’s no danger of the new version appearing to be endorsed by the user who quote tweeted it.
The downside is that the edited version might be preferable to the original, and the user might wish they had quote tweeted that, but they aren’t given the option to update.
The same thing happens if someone retweets. The old version stays retweeted, with the same note letting readers know there’s a new version.
The user can retweet the edited version if they want, and their timeline will contain both versions. In my test, when a user did this the RT count for the tweet stayed at 1.
What happens if I receive push notifications for an account’s tweets and that account edits a tweet?
As far as I know, I don’t have any followers avid enough to have push notifications set for my tweets, but according to Hank Green, whose account is much, much more popular than mine, they receive a fresh notification for every single edit, so big accounts: consider yourselves warned.
Can someone link to an old version of an edited tweet?
Yes. In addition to the version history, tweets with different versions have different URLs. So in no way is the original, gray version stricken from the permanent record. Replies, retweets, and likes are disabled for gray tweets, but the share button still works.
Credit: Mike Pearl / Mashable
This was a preliminary test, and it may turn out that there are all sorts of holes in this feature that make it possible to prank people or cause actual harm. If those holes exist, however, we haven’t found them yet.
This Week in Apps: Twitter gets an Edit button, Instagram increases ads, Google gets serious about wearables
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Edit Tweet Option Expands to Twitter Blue Subscribers in the United States
Earlier this week, Twitter provided an edit button to Twitter Blue users in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and promised a U.S. expansion, which has come quicker than expected.
The “Edit Tweet” button can be found alongside the the already available Delete Tweet, Pin to Profile, Change who can reply, and Add/remove from Lists options.
the Edit Tweet test is expanding and now rolling out to Twitter Blue members in the US
go ahead, try it out! https://t.co/828Q3PIQL5
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) October 6, 2022
Tweets can be edited for up to 30 minutes after being sent, and tweets that have been changed are denoted with an “Edited” tag. Twitter provides a history of tweet edits, so the original tweet can continue to be viewed.
Twitter Blue is priced at $4.99 per month in the U.S. and it provides access to ad-free articles, various customization options, a bookmarks folder, an undo tweet option, early access to new Twitter features, and more.
This article, “Edit Tweet Option Expands to Twitter Blue Subscribers in the United States” first appeared on MacRumors.com
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Twitter finally starts rolling out the edit button, but US users will have to wait
After years of users begging Twitter for an edit button, they’re finally getting their wish. The company is rolling out the long-awaited feature in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but only for Twitter Blue subscribers. The option isn’t available in the US just yet, but Twitter says users there will get access soon. It plans to offer the feature in other markets too.
Twitter Blue subscribers who send a tweet and realize they made a typo or two will have 30 minutes to make edits. They can make changes up to five times during that time frame. For the sake of transparency, edited tweets have a modified timestamp that reads “last edited” and the time of the last change. Click the timestamp and you’ll see the entire edit history.
test went well, Edit Tweet is now rolling out to Twitter Blue members in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand!
US coming soon pic.twitter.com/7NNPRC0t1I
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) October 3, 2022
Twitter said in April that it was at long last starting to test an edit button. There were indications early on that the feature could include an edit history screen. At the beginning of September, Twitter said that it had, in fact, created an edit button. It published a test tweet at the end of the month and, a few days later, the edit button is going out into the wild.
The company is still technically testing the feature — it’ll be available as part of the Labs section of the $5 per month Twitter Blue service. Moreover, you can only edit original tweets and quote tweets, according to a support page. Many types of tweets cannot be edited, such as threads, replies, retweets, pinned tweets, Super Follow tweets and ones you draft on third-party apps.
Still, it’s a start. Twitter’s approach to the edit button makes sense in terms of keeping things as transparent as possible. It’s easy to imagine news organizations making changes to a breaking news tweet that’s going viral as clarifications or more details come in. Maybe if Twitter opens up the edit button to everyone, they’ll be able to fix innocuous typos like “sneak peak” without too much strife.
hello
this is a test to make sure the edit button works, we’ll let you know how it goes
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) September 29, 2022