You’ll have 30 minutes to alter your tweets—but only if you subscribe to Twitter Blue.
Another issue that naysayers are likely to have with Twitter’s edit feature as currently designed is that it hides the context of what was changed from other users initially. Twitter’s short, snappy style of conversation means users often don’t fully take in the content of posts they share—as evidenced by the platform’s June 2020asking users if they wanted to actually read articles they retweeted before sharing to their network.
Jean Burgess, professor of digital media at Queensland University of Technology, and the author of a book on Twitter, also thinks that it’s an overall positive change. “The safeguards, the time limit, and transparency measures—providing notification that something has been edited, and being able to reveal the previous version—seem to address most of the key concerns around potential misuse,” she says. “The core early adopter Twitter community has long asked for this.
In addition, the edit button change is unlikely to mean much to the majority of Twitter users. “The edit option relates to a minority of users who tweet,” says Elinor Carmi, lecturer in digital society at City, University of London, who specializes in digital literacy. “It might look like more because we follow and interact with the more 'loud' ones,” she adds, “but they are definitely not the majority.
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