Apparently it wasn’t just an April Fools’ joke. As any true blue Twitter user knows, the divide over the social network adding an edit button is the deepest ideological ravine of our time — and Twitter is poised to switch sides.
The company confirmed that it is indeed working on an edit button Tuesday. Twitter started tinkering around with a tweet editing option last year and will test it out in Twitter Blue Labs, a corner of the platform’s premium subscription product where it tries out new features. Twitter Blue subscribers can expect to see an edit tweet button “in the coming months,” according to the company.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022
In the past, the company has downplayed its interest in giving users the ability to edit tweets, saying that the feature barely ranked on its list of priorities. But 2022 Twitter is a very different beast — one that bears little resemblance to the stagnant social platform of yore. The company has accelerated into all kinds of new products over the last two years, rapidly developing and sometimes discarding new features as quickly as they came.
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