HIGHLIGHTS
- Twitter's Edit Tweet strategy is unchangeable.
- Twitter will produce a new Tweet with the updated text.
- It is unclear whether the tweet history would be available only to users.
Twitter's new Edit Tweet functionality has been making headlines for quite some time. While there were some worries about the 'Edit Tweet' button's nature, it appears that the new tool may leave a digital trail of your tweet's history.
According to The Verge, the edit tool appears to have a 'immutable' quality, which implies that when a tweet is modified, Twitter may produce a totally new message while keeping prior versions of that tweet.
"It appears that Twitter's approach to Update Tweet is immutable," developer Manchun Wong says. "Rather than mutating the Tweet text within the same Tweet, it re-creates a new Tweet with the altered content, along with a list of the old Tweets prior to that edit."
Alessandro Paluzzi, an app researcher, also shared screenshots of the new edit button, teasing us with how the functionality would look when it becomes live on Twitter. Paluzzi illustrates how the 'Edit Tweet' option may appear in the three-dot menu on the right side of your tweets in one screenshot. It is unclear if the tweet history would be available only to users or if it will be available to the public.
