After years of its users requesting the feature, Twitter has finally begun to roll out the feature to edit a Tweet. Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now able to edit their content for 30 minutes after posting.
Here’s a breakdown of the new process:
- After you’ve posted your tweet, you’ll now be able to see a notification allowing you to make changes within 30 minutes. Users can make up to five edits to the original tweet within these 30 minutes.
- To edit a tweet, tap on the three dots at the top right, then select ‘Edit Tweet’ and make changes.
- Edited tweets will display an ‘Edited’ icon in-stream, alerting users that the original tweet has been changed.
Twitter has resisted adding an edit option for a long time. tweets are meant to be brief and unedited content. Adding the ability to edit tweets once published brought up concerns even small changes could significantly change the context of the original message. For example, this could lead to problems with tweets that people had retweeted.
Twitter is working on answers to these questions, including full edit history, which would allow users to access a tweet’s full edit history and provide insight on the original context of something that’s been edited after someone retweeted.
Twitter is also working on new notes to add to embedded tweets which will provide more context as to its edit history.
With the launch of public tweet editing, Twitter has also confirmed that tweet metadata is being made available on the Twitter API,
