Even though Twitter confirmed they were working on an edit button, there have been a lot of major questions about how the company would be limiting abuse of the feature, and now we probably have an answer to this. Developer Jane Manchun Wong, who reverse engineers apps to find new features within them, says that this new tool would create a new tweet whenever someone tweaks something they wrote.
Manchun said, “Looks like Twitter’s approach to Edit Tweet is immutable, as in, instead of mutating the Tweet text within the same tweet (same ID), it re-creates a new Tweet with the amended content, along with the list of the old Tweets before that edit,” According to screenshots and GIFs provided by developers out there, the edit option will be accessible through the three-dot menu above a tweet.
When you tap the button, it leads to an interface that very much is similar to the current existing composition window, with one difference being that the button you press to post a tweet now says ‘Update’ instead of ‘Tweet’. Whenever this rollout could happen, it ultimately could be decided by the outcome of Elon Musk’s bid to buy the company.
