Twitter has resisted adding the ability to edit tweets for years, even though it’s the most requested feature from its users, including potential owners. Elon Musk. Former CEO Jack Dorsey In 2020, the company probably won’t introduce an edit button at all, he said, saying that doing so would ruin the “vibe” of Twitter’s early days as an SMS messaging service.
Experts point out that being able to edit tweets allows bad actors to rewrite history and spread misinformation, even if the entire tweet history is available.
For example, innocuous tweets that go viral can easily be edited later to display false information or hate speech, and even if earlier versions of the tweet appear, that doesn’t mean people will see them. The edit button also, in theory, makes tweets a great target for mass hacking, if bad actors know the tweets will have a large audience.
Users are informed that tweets are edited with icon, timestamp and label which is Twitter he said. It is designed to make it clear that the original message has changed within half an hour of being sent. Tweets can be published “a few times” during that time frame, and when someone clicks on the account, a log of how a tweet has changed will appear.
Twitter acknowledges that people may abuse the feature and says it is testing for that potential. Internet policy expert Konstantinos Komaitis said it was likely an attempt to downplay its meaning.
“Depending on how Twitter decides to design this, it can help people with typing problems and nothing more, or I believe, the general public discourse and the way we communicate and share understanding,” he says. .
Giving users an edit key could be interpreted as a useful distraction from the platform’s deeper problems: the upcoming legal dispute with Mask, the glaring privacy and security concerns raised by the former security chief, and the deep-seated concern about curbing trolling, hate speech and other toxic behavior. The Edit button does nothing to resolve these issues.
Alerting users that a tweet has been edited is important to reduce the likelihood of abuse, Komatis suggested, using the example of someone tweeting a picture of a dog to generate positive responses and then changing it. Image of Hitler.
