Twitter has been spotted working on the long-awaited Edit Button, which will be available to Twitter Blue users

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Twitter has been observed developing a feature that would allow users to modify their tweets on the microblogging network. The functionality has been discovered for the first time on the Twitter Web interface, and it may find its way to the Android and iOS applications in the future.

Users have been requesting the option to alter tweets after they have been posted for numerous years. Twitter has previously acknowledged that it is working on an edit button that will be available to Twitter Blue users in the coming months.

Developer Alessandro Paluzzi discovered the edit button for Twitter on the web interface and uploaded screenshots of the functionality on Twitter. After posting a tweet, a three-dot menu appears with an Edit Tweet option under the View Tweet Analytics option.

According to Paluzzi's screenshot, pressing the button brings up the composer window with the opportunity to change (or rewrite) the tweet, with a blue Update button replacing the standard Tweet button.

While this is the first instance of the new edit button being detected, the functionality is expected to evolve and alter while it is under development. It is presently unknown how much time users will have to update a tweet.

Another Twitter user, Nima Owji (@nima owji), uploaded an animation showing the functionality in action, adding that users cannot yet edit or adjust the audience of a tweet after it has been sent.

The service originally mentioned the edit button on April 1, claiming that it was in the works. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who recently launched a $43 billion (approximately Rs. 3,28,250 crore) offer to acquire the firm, conducted a poll on Twitter earlier this month, asking if Twitter should receive an edit button.

Musk tweeted the poll immediately after revealing a 9.2 percent ownership in the firm, and Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal reposted Musk's poll, indicating that the poll's results will be significant. "Please vote carefully," he had said. In more recent news, Musk has filed a hostile takeover bid for Twitter worth $43 billion (about Rs. 3,27,420 crore).

Meanwhile, Twitter stated on April 5 that it is developing the ability to edit tweets, which will be available to Twitter Blue members in the coming months, but the company has yet to specify whether (or when) the capability would eventually be available to all users.

News by: NewsPen Added on: 16-Apr-2022

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