It’s a feature that Twitter users have wished for for so long that it’s become a meme, but finally the fabled “edit button” is becoming a reality. Twitter has revealed that it is working on a feature that would allow users to edit their tweets after they have been published. The idea is that you’ll be able to correct any mistakes or inaccuracies in a tweet without destroying any of the tweet’s existing replies, retweets, or likes. Twitter said Tuesday that it wants to begin testing the function with Twitter Blue subscribers in the “coming months.”
In a thread on Tuesday, Jay Sullivan, the company’s VP of consumer product, stated that editing had been the “highest requested Twitter feature for many years.” Since last year, the corporation has been investigating how to develop the function “safely.”
