Is Twitter Finally Getting an Edit Button? A Sudden ‘Feature’ Had Twitterati Excited

Did Twitter slyly test the much requested edit button feature? Recently, a rather suddenly introduced feature appeared on Twitter, using which users were seemingly able to edit responses made to tweets. While this got many quite excited, as it turns out, the said ‘feature’ was not really a beta test made by Twitter. Rather, it was a bug in the system that caused the feature appear as if it was an integrated edit button on the platform. The glitch has reportedly been confirmed by Twitter now, so it is safe to assume that the accidental appearance of the feature was not an alpha-stage testing feature that appeared by mistake on Twitter’s stable build.

As revealed in tweets last night, the feature seemingly appeared to be as close to an edit tweet feature as you may expect. In this case, if a user replies to a tweet and spots an error that needs to be edited, they could simply delete the tweet and hit reply to the original tweet again. While doing so right now simply leads to Twitter’s text field opening up where the user has to type their full response again, as spotted by users, Twitter was now showing the full text material of what a user had previously typed. They could then simply make the necessary changes and tweet the response again, without needing to rewrite the entire thing yet again.