During the evening of September 29th, the first modified tweet appeared on the Twitter Blue profile, which brings the platform community ever closer to the coveted "edit" button.
The long-awaited moment is upon us: Twitter is about to launch the possibility to edit tweets. Last night, September 29th, on the official page of Twitter Blue, Twitter’s paid service profile available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, a message appeared which appears to have been modified and published at 22.57.
As early as early September, Twitter had said the feature would arrive at the end of the month. Despite this, it seems that, now at the end of September, this is not the case. The fact that the tweet came from the Twitter Blue profile suggests that the first to be able to use it will be the subscribers to the paid service, and then all the others.
What will change with the ability to edit tweets
This feature has been awaited a lot, and it finally seems to be on its way. But how could it affect the dynamics of the platform? Twitter is famous not only for being one of the first modern social networks to have established itself, but also because all the most important figures - institutional and otherwise - in the world gravitate around it, including politicians, actors, influencers and many more.
Especially in the political sphere, the activities of the players in the sector are closely monitored by media. Many use Twitter to collect opinions from politicians based on their posts on certain topics. However, it sometimes happens that they realize that they have written out of place things or that they have turned out to be inaccurate; they therefore decide to delete the tweet.
With this function it will no longer be necessary: modifying them will be enough. Should one begin to prefer the change to the elimination of tweet, it will also become easier for the media to understand how the positions of politicians and users of the platform in general change.
Original article published on Money.it Italy 2022-09-30 13:03:00. Original title: Twitter, in arrivo il tasto per modificare i tweet
