This Is What Twitter's Edit Tweet Button Looks Like, Is It Starting To Work?

Twitter announced that it will soon be bringing the feature users have been waiting for, the Edit Tweet button. (photo credit: Chris J. Davis / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Twitter announced this month that it will soon be bringing the feature users have been waiting for, the Edit Tweet button. And this week, the feature has been spotted by some users.

Although the feature is not quite ready to use, it shows that Twitter is really serious about bringing this feature.

One of the engineers, Nima Owji, took to Twitter to share a GIF tweet of the button showing the Edit Tweet feature. According to what Owji shared, the button will be found in the three-dot menu at the top right of a user's tweet.

From that menu, users can do things like delete tweets or pin them to a profile, so that feature would be a natural place to correct tweets as well.

I recorded a GIF from the upcoming #Twitter's Edit Button! pic.twitter.com/FPIRzzjUAF

— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) April 16, 2022

Owji points out that after a user corrects a tweet, they must then click an "Update" button to post it to the Twitter timeline.

But when asked about how the edit history will be displayed to other users, Owji doesn't know yet. He told TechCrunch, Tuesday, April 19, that from what he observed in the code from the Twitter site, the Edit button doesn't actually edit the tweet on the back end. That feature will just create another new tweet.

Meanwhile, according to Digital Trends, 9to5Google contributor Dylan Roussel tweeted a screenshot of the Edit Tweet button feature that arrived on his Twitter, but unfortunately the feature is not working, just showing how it looks.

Ooh! @Twitter's edit button can already be enabled. It doesn't work yet, but I'll keep an eye on it! pic.twitter.com/7hyCAxsSym

— Dylan Roussel (@evowizz) April 16, 2022

From that screenshot, we can see the Edit Tweet option is included in the pop-up menu that usually appears when the user wants to do other things like delete the tweet or change who can reply to it.

If the user selects Edit Tweet, an editing window appears that allows them to edit the tweet and looks similar to the window that appears when composing the tweet.

When finished editing, users can select the Update button to publish their latest tweet. However, in the third screenshot, when Roussel tries to do so, it seems that the editing feature is not working yet and instead displays an error message.

By bringing up the Edit Tweet button, Twitter says they are taking care to ensure the feature won't be abused by bad actors looking to alter recordings of public conversations after the fact.

The company also confirmed that the feature will begin testing on Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months.