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Twitter ‘Edit’ button coming soon, but I’m not too happy

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Twitter is testing an Edit button, and while some may be excited about the possibility, I’m treating this button with some caution. Even Twitter says it will require careful deliberation, and admits there is potential for abuse with the “edit” option. On the face of it, the Edit button looks simple: an easy tool to fix all those typos we tend to make in our tweets. But given how Twitter functions as a public platform, where everyone — from government officials to newsrooms to celebrities — posts their opinions and…

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Twitter is exploring an ‘Edit Button’, and testing will start soon: Here’s how it works

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Twitter confirmed that it has been exploring how to include the Edit feature since last year. It plans to start testing this in the coming months. The communications team posted on Twitter about the edit button, although they say the idea did not come from a poll, referring to Elon Musk’s recent poll about the same. Musk became a major contributor to Twitter, and also joined the board of directors as recently reported. By the way, the Twitter team posted about an “edit” button on April 1st as well, but…

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