How to edit a tweet? There has been no answer to this question except you delete the tweet and publish a fresh tweet. Twitter refuses to allow the editing of tweets, but, at least, everything seems to indicate that it will allow to undo their sending for a few seconds. The dynamics are similar to what we find in Gmail.
Editing tweets is one of the features most demanded by Twitter users. The company, in fact, has even publicly joked about its implementation, but this, unfortunately, still does not occur. Therefore, if a person makes, for example, a misspelling, their only option is to delete that tweet, resign themselves to losing the interactions associated with it and publish a new one.
However, the well-known engineer Jane Manchun Wong - known for discovering new functions through reverse engineering - revealed this Friday that Twitter is working on a function that will undo the sending of a tweet for a few seconds. This feature obviously wouldn't offer the same level of control as an edit button, but on more than one occasion it could be useful.
Twitter is working on “Undo Send” timer for tweets pic.twitter.com/nS0kuijPK0
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021
In the GIF published by the engineer herself, you can see how a kind of timer appears that allows you to undo the shipment in case the user regrets or wants to correct any detail. The dynamic is similar to that found in Gmail, which also allows you to undo an email for a few seconds.
Twitter won't implement an edit button, according to Jack Dorsey
In an interview published by WIRED last year, Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Twitter, emphatically assured that they will not implement an edit button on the social network. The executive explained that, with this function, a person could publish a tweet that generates many interactions ( likes or retweets ) and, later, completely modifies its content.
In that interview, however, Dorsey did say that Twitter was evaluating the possibility of allowing users to undo the sending of tweets for a period of 30 seconds or a minute. A feature that, as engineer Jane Manchun Wong pointed out months later, appears to be closer than ever to its public launch
“We started as a text messaging service. And as you all know, when you text, you can't really take it back, ”Dorsey explained. "We want to preserve that vibe and that feeling of the early days."
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