Twitter wants to avoid pure chaos through its edit button

Twitter’s edit button will come with the ability to view the original text of a tweet discovered in the app’s code. The social media app is going to build in such a feature to prevent users from abusing the edit button.

Twitter edit button

If you post a tweet soon and then edit it with the upcoming edit button, Twitter users will still be able to view the original tweet. There are indications for this discovers by noted researcher Jane Manchun Wong in Twitter’s code.

When you edit a tweet, Twitter actually creates a second tweet that appears in the place of the original. However, the content of the first tweet is preserved. Presumably, the function will work like the history function of Google Docs, with which you will always see the latest version of a document, but you can view the previous versions.

Avoid Abuse

Twitter’s edit button has been a popular feature among users for years, and this month the social media app announced that you’ll soon be able to edit the text of tweets. But after that announcement, users have expressed concerns about how that button will work. It could be used to fix an annoying typo, but just as well to edit the entire content of tweets from the past.