One of the things that bothered Twitter users the most was that they couldn’t edit a tweet after sharing it. Although this feature of Twitter has been talked about for a long time, it was never implemented. Fortunately, the first signals that we will get rid of this annoying situation came in the past days, and then the first view of the feature was presented to users with a shared video.
Although this new feature of Twitter made many users happy, it also brought some question marks. Jane Manchun Wong, who made a name for herself with her posts on Twitter, claimed that this feature left an ‘open door’ that malicious people could use.
Your tweets can leave a digital mark
It’s been a short while since Twitter announced the editing feature, but controversy has come with it. Numerous people have expressed concerns about this feature. Manchun Wong was one of these names. According to Wong, old versions and drafts of edited tweets leave a digital trace, allowing past tweets to be stored in some way. Some critics also agreed with Wong’s rhetoric, making some additions and pointing out that this feature could mislead the public and be abused.
Not much information was shared on Twitter, except for a small video about these regulations. There’s no word yet on how this feature will work, whether a copy of old tweets will be kept or their visibility. Of course, it’s quite possible that this would be a big problem if the tweet history was made public. However, we still think that it is a very nice and must-have solution for simple problems such as correcting a typo that we noticed later in our tweets. Of course, we expect new explanations from Twitter about how this feature will work in the near future. Maybe we can be told that there is nothing to worry about the new application, and we can be sprinkled with water.
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