Following news of an edit button rollout, Twitter has officially posted its first edited tweet.
Twitter has officially released its first edited tweet, which is an important step towards achieving the most requested feature on the social media platform. While the edit button test will be limited to certain users, everyone will be able to see edited tweets.
Twitter’s first edited tweet creates a new milestone
So when and where did this long-awaited tweet appear? The official Twitter Blue account tweeted the edited post on September 29, 2022.
Twitter originally announced that it was testing an edit button earlier this month. The announcement on the BlogTwitter included an example of what the edited tweets would look like.
But Twitter Blue’s post is the first live preview of the feature that users can interact with. How is it different from other tweets? Users should be able to see a pen icon and Last modification label on the post. Clicking on this label will redirect users to the edit history of the tweet.
The edit history for this particular post shows that the original tweet reads: “Hello. This is a test to make sure the edit button is working.” In the edited post, Twitter Blue added “We’ll let you know how it goes” at the end of the tweet. The history also shows the number of likes, retweets and comments received by the first version compared to the number received by the modified version.
So why was the Blue Twitter account the first to post an edited tweet? Twitter stressed that it would slowly roll out this feature to limited users to see how people are using (and potentially abusing) it. But Twitter Blue followers will be the first users to receive the feature outside of the limited test group.
The edit button will make several changes to Twitter. Hopefully the overall effect is positive, as many users simply want to be able to correct typos or add clarity to their posts.
Twitter changes are officially here
A new era of Twitter functionality has arrived, as the platform’s most requested feature makes its debut. But it remains to be seen how users will use this feature and how quickly the edit button will roll out to a wider user base.
