Twitter Is Officially Introducing an Edit Button, So Long as You Subscribe to Twitter Blue
(via Wired)
It is the penchant of many a comedian to fire off a blaze of tweets representative of a rant or fire back at all replies under the same duress as playing Space Invaders. The from-the-hip nature of Twitter lends itself naturally to errors, whether they be grammatical or contextual or simply just poorly thought out, and it has sure gotten plenty of comedians in varying degrees of hot water.
A newly announced “Edit Button” for the microblogging giant will be some sort of partial solution, though it’s partial due to a handful of very big caveats. Firstly, you’ll have to subscribe to Twitter’s exclusive subscription service, Twitter Blue, which you very well might be finding out about now. Secondly, you’ll only have 30 minutes from posting the tweet into your timeline to fix it and, lastly, there will be transparency as to what tweets have been altered.
Such parameters don’t offer too much relief for those going back several years through their tweets worried that a persnickety someone might want to dig up something problematic over a decade ago. Still, you could always delete such tweets or, perhaps, be a little more thoughtful while posting on Twitter as a remedy to that issue.
Perhaps, one day, the feature will be offered standard for all Twitter users and maybe bolster a return to Twitter where many have left to have their only social media engagement be Instagram or Tik Tok. Whether this will signal a renewed interest in Twitter or what sort of ripple effect it’ll have on the Internet has yet to be seen.
That said, we’re sure the Internet will find a way to find what you tweeted first after you edited it and, in that case, we can only hope that it’s just a less funny punch line or tag.
