{"id":189763,"date":"2022-05-03T10:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=189763"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:47:28","slug":"new-twitter-edit-tweet-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/new-twitter-edit-tweet-button\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally get to see the Twitter Edit button in action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just like pretty much everybody else on the internet, we here at Softonic have been tracking rumors of a Twitter edit button<\/a> for years and years. The Twitter edit button news<\/a> finally broke last month that the social media giant was finally working on the long-requested feature, with the Twitter Comms account posting that they\u2019d actually been working on the feature for over a year. Well, now things have kicked up a notch further as leaked footage of the new edit button in action has come to light.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A Twitter edit button has for too long seemed like an obvious update for the social network to implement. You\u2019ll know this if, like us, you\u2019ve ever had to delete a tweet because of a typo or some other silly mistake. It\u2019s not that simple, however. With people\u2019s tweets often being cited in everything from articles to governmental reports, an edited tweet might actually attribute a citation to something that has a different meaning from its original intent. At least this is the main reason, Twitter has been giving for dragging its feet on this update. Well, it seems that Twitter has found a way to fix this potential problem and this leak proves it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ever-vigilant social media watcher Jane Manchum Wong<\/a> has tweeted a screengrab of the Twitter edit feature in action. Interestingly, it clearly seems that Twitter still has a lot of work to do before the feature will go live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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the current unreleased version of Edit Tweet reuploads media (images, videos, GIFs, etc) instead of reusing them. an inefficient use of the bandwidth and media processing power, might be lossy too. plus it turns my video into an image (mishandling media type) pic.twitter.com\/HjoIA0CZhO<\/a><\/p>— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) May 2, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>