Begone typos and grammar mistakes! Begone fat-fingered auto corrected slip-ups and textual despair! The edit button is coming to Twitter.
On Thursday, after countless pleas from many of its more than 237 million users, some people will start being able to click a button on the social media service to edit a tweet after they have posted it. It has only been about 15 years, nine months and 22 days since they started asking for that ability.Since Twitter was unveiled in 2006, the basics of using it have been simple and constant: You wrote a tweet, you posted it — and then you dealt with the consequences.
As Twitter grew from a niche service to a global platform, more users began demanding a way to edit their posts. They complained. They begged. They raged. Some made typos in their tweets asking for an edit button to correct their typos. But more recently, Twitter began reconsidering an edit button as it tried to grow its service by attracting people who might be more careful with their words.
The edit button will be granted to Twitter employees first for internal testing, and then to users of its subscription service, Twitter Blue. The company eventually — though it did not specify when — plans to give everyone the option to alter their tweets.
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