Twitter's Edit Feature May Include Tweet Revision History

Features Twitter/Photo edit button: Twitter Alessandro Paluzzi

JAKARTA - After successfully becoming the majority shareholder in Twitter Inc., on April 4, Elon Musk used Twitter's polling feature to ask whether users need an edit button or not.

In a tweet by developer Jane Manchun Wong, who is known for reverse-engineering apps to discover new features, suggested an upcoming tool could create a new tweet every time someone changes something they wrote.

“It seems that Twitter's approach to Edit Tweets is irreversible, as, instead of changing the Tweet text within the same tweet (same ID), it regenerates a new Tweet with the changed content, along with a list of previous old Tweets. for that edit,” said Manchun Wong.

Looks like Twitter’s approach to Edit Tweet is immutable, as in, instead of mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the amended content, along with the list of the old Tweets prior of that edit

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 16, 2022

In a series of separate tweets, several other developers, such as Alessandro Paluzzi, gave a leak about the appearance of the edit button that will be issued by Twitter later. In the screenshots and GIFs shared by him, the edit options are accessible via the three-dot menu.

#Twitter is working on the edit button 👀 pic.twitter.com/684nQ5bhnF

— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) April 15, 2022

Whatever form Twitter's edit function takes will ultimately be decided by the outcome of Elon Musk's bid to buy the company. After buying a 9.2 percent stake in the social media giant and deciding not to join the board of directors.

The Tesla and SpaceX executive offered to buy a 100 percent stake in Twitter for $43 billion or IDR 618.4 trillion. On Friday, the board unanimously approved the poison pill strategy in a bid to deflect the bid.