Editing tweets will have a timer and rules for actions

Twitter’s rumored tweet editing feature is becoming more and more feasible. The company, now part of Elon Musk, would be developing this possibility that users have been asking for for some time. Although originally born for an April Fool’s Day or April Fool’s Day for its translation, it didn’t take long before the community began to require it. Even less time for Twitter itself to notice his effort to make it a reality. Recently, there are some more specific details of how the interesting tweet editing tool will work.

Editing tweets will be like this…

According to Nima Owji, who is a researcher and app developer, the company is already putting its efforts to develop in principle, a timer. This would be the engine of the function, appearing when you want to edit a tweet.

Although the time to edit is not really clear, it is believed that it can take around 30 minutes to make changes to a tweet. It could also just be a test mark before having the official one during its launch.

This would differentiate the function from other similar ones, such as the Facebook platform, which does not have a timer and allows editing in any publication without exception, but on the condition that it be noted that it is an already edited post. Another social network that integrated this function was Instagram, which does not indicate if a publication has already been edited.

Owji also found other highly relevant data regarding this possibility. Since, in case a tweet has been edited, the user will not be able to reply, retweet or like the version prior to the edition of said tweet. Practically this new rule would consider the old tweet deletedtaking into account only the edited version.

#twitter is working on a timer for the Tweet Composer. It shows up when you’re editing a tweet! pic.twitter.com/1CVfCHe4yA

— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) June 3, 2022

During this time and since April, there have been sources with reports confirming the details provided by Owji about the new tweet editing feature.

One of the sources is Jane Manchun Wong, who believes that the platform and its publications “will not change” even if the tool is integrated. Jane states how she thinks tweet editing will work, as Instead of editing the original tweet, the social network creates a new one with a different ID.

However, Twitter would still keep a history of both the original tweets and all the versions the user has created.

#twitter won’t let you Like, Retweet, or Reply to the old version of an edited tweet! pic.twitter.com/iGkEnJz3yS

— Nima Owji (@nima_owji) June 3, 2022