New discoveries have emerged regarding the function, still in development, which will allow you to edit tweets: now, you can get an idea of how the edited tweet will look, and the history of changes compared to the original one.
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In the past weeks, several leakers have found confirmations that the social Twitter was working on the function to modify a published tweet: on those occasions it emerged as, rather than modifying the original tweet, keeping the same ID, with consequent management difficulties in the back -end of the platform, a new one would be created (as long as the re-editing took place within 30 minutes of sharing the original one), with another identifier, and a way to show the history of all the changes that have occurred since publication.
The question mark, however, was about what the edited tweet would look like once it was published. The answer to this question has just been provided by leaker Jane Manchun Wong, who – thanks to the analysis of the Twitter web app – shared some explanatory screenshots in this regard, from which it can be deduced how the modified tweet will appear with the ‘icon of a pencil / pen and the label bearing the word “modified” (for now, indeed, written in a way a little too small and inconsistent with the rest of the platform interface).
Tapping or clicking on that word will display the edit history of the original tweet. Wong also made another important clarification regarding the tweet editing function (moreover, not to be confused with the one that allows you to cancel the tweet just published to correct a typo which, prerogative of Blue subscribers, recalls a ‘similar function also present on Gmail).
Specifically, since the old and the new tweet will be two separate entities, each with its own ID, it will also be possible to connect directly to the old tweet (the original one, that is) with the consequence that, in that case, the label “There is a new version of this Tweet”, by intervening on which you will be taken to the new tweet (the “modified” one).
A final discovery made by Wong regarding the tweet editing function (which, as is known, will be tested first by Blue users “in the coming months”), finally, concerns multimedia contents (eg GIFs, videos, images) attachments to the original tweets: apparently the feature, which could subsequently modify its behavior in this regard, would tend to reload them rather than reuse them, in the name of a practice that was immediately inefficient.