Twitter introduced a much-anticipated characteristic final week — the flexibility to edit tweets. The corporate stated that when the characteristic is out there customers will have the ability to edit their tweets for as much as half-hour from posting. Nonetheless, there’s a catch: customers can solely edit their tweets 5 occasions inside this era.
Whereas this restrict appears enough for correcting typos, importing media information, or including some tags, the corporate might need launched it to cease folks from abusing the characteristic by altering the content material on the tweet on a whim. The social media agency instructed DailyTech that it’s presently observing person conduct and the variety of edits obtainable to customers within the accepted timeframe may change.
The “edit tweet” characteristic shall be first obtainable to customers who pay for the elective Twitter Blue subscription, nevertheless it gained’t be rolling out to all paid customers initially. Twitter confirmed that New Zealand-based subscribers will first get the characteristic and will probably be later pushed to Twitter Blue customers in Australia, Canada, and the U.S as soon as it learns extra about utilization patterns. So subscribers in these three international locations might need to attend a bit longer and use the service with out the marquee characteristic.
After the corporate laid out its plans for the edit button, consultants opined that the instrument may very well be used to unfold political misinformation or crypto scams. However these cases will solely come to the fore as soon as a bigger set of individuals begin utilizing the characteristic on common foundation. It’s too early to resolve if the characteristic will grow to be a menace or simply an choice for folks to repair their dumb typos.
The social community has confronted a ton of scrutiny over the previous couple of months over the way it has dealt with its safety practices, spam-account-catching strategies, and little one sexual abuse materials (CSAM) detection. The very last thing the social media firm would need is for probably the most anticipated options to trigger havoc.