{"id":440174,"date":"2022-04-06T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=440174"},"modified":"2022-04-06T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T05:25:49","slug":"twitter-will-start-testing-tweet-edit-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/440174-twitter-will-start-testing-tweet-edit-feature.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter will start testing tweet edit feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will kick off internal testing on an edit function in the months ahead, the company said on Tuesday, adding that work on the button &#8212; its \u201cmost requested\u201d feature by users &#8212; started last year before any online poll on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-social-embedded\" data-social-media-type=\"twitter\" data-original-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/statuses\/1511456430024364037\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">now that everyone is asking\u2026<\/p>\n<p>yes, we\u2019ve been working on an edit feature since last year!<\/p>\n<p>no, we didn\u2019t get the idea from a poll<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;re kicking off testing within\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterBlue?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TwitterBlue<\/a>\u00a0Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn\u2019t, and what\u2019s possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/status\/1511456430024364037?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The social media company also posted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/status\/1511456466233815041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">animation<\/a>\u00a0showing how the feature would work.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, who is Twitter\u2019s biggest shareholder with a 9.1% active stake, started a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-04-05\/elon-musk-poll-may-prompt-a-twitter-edit-button-ceo-hints\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter poll on Monday<\/a>\u00a0asking users if they want an edit button.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that 73.6% out of about 4.4 million respondents said they supported the feature.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Head of Consumer Product Jay Sullivan said the company would seek \u201cinput and adversarial thinking\u201d ahead of a launch of an \u201cedit\u201d feature as it \u201ccould be misused to alter the record of the public conversation\u201d without time limits and transparency about what has been edited.<\/p>\n<div class=\"news-social-embedded\" data-social-media-type=\"twitter\" data-original-url=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jaysullivan\/statuses\/1511457596569382917\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">2\/ Edit has been the most requested Twitter feature for many years. People want to be able to fix (sometimes embarrassing) mistakes, typos and hot takes in the moment. They currently work around this by deleting and tweeting again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay Sullivan (@jaysullivan)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaysullivan\/status\/1511457596569382917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/439162-facebook-rolls-out-major-privacy-change-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Facebook rolls out major privacy change in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will kick off internal testing on an edit function in the months ahead, the company said on Tuesday, adding that work on the button &#8212; its \u201cmost requested\u201d feature by users &#8212; started last year before any online poll on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":440176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11373,77734,14831,405],"class_list":["post-440174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-elon-musk","tag-tweet-edit","tag-tweets","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440178,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440174\/revisions\/440178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}