Twitter Will Let You Edit Your Tweet Up To Five Times (techcrunch.com) 32
Last week, Twitter announced the ability to edit tweets for subscribers of its Twitter Blue service. "The company said that once the feature is available users will be able to edit their tweets for up to 30 minutes from posting," reports TechCrunch. "However, there's a catch: Users can only edit their tweets five times within this period." From the report: While this limit seems sufficient for correcting typos, uploading media files or adding some tags, the company might have introduced it to stop people from abusing the feature by changing the content on the tweet on a whim. The social media firm told TechCrunch that it's currently observing user behavior, and the number of edits available to users in the approved time frame could change.
The "edit tweet" feature will be first available to users who pay for the optional Twitter Blue subscription, but it won't be rolling out to all paid users initially. Twitter confirmed that New Zealand-based subscribers will first get the feature and it will be later pushed to Twitter Blue users in Australia, Canada and the U.S once it learns more about usage patterns. So subscribers in these three countries might have to wait a bit longer and use the service without the marquee feature.
The "edit tweet" feature will be first available to users who pay for the optional Twitter Blue subscription, but it won't be rolling out to all paid users initially. Twitter confirmed that New Zealand-based subscribers will first get the feature and it will be later pushed to Twitter Blue users in Australia, Canada and the U.S once it learns more about usage patterns. So subscribers in these three countries might have to wait a bit longer and use the service without the marquee feature.
Bogus! (Score:1)
Just put up another tweet with corrections. Editing should not be allowed. Sure hope they don't do that here, despite all the crying for it
Will it show the RCS history of a Tweet? Diffs? (Score:2)
Re: Will it show the RCS history of a Tweet? Diffs (Score:2, Funny)
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I wonder if it will show the revision history ...
From a link [techcrunch.com] in TFA:
People reading the tweet can tap the label to view the editing history of the tweet.
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Looking forward to the ensuing hilarity when the next Anthony Weiner tries to "edit" their pictures after they've sent them, not realizing there is an audit trail.
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Actually Linus has said they're gonna change the workflow of the kernel: All patches will now have to be submitted via tweet.
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... and they pay you for that.
Do you have as many accounts there as you do here?
Rearranging deck chairs on the titanic (Score:2)
This company is unprofitable and they're working on adding an edit button? What. I hope the shareholders enjoy the value this adds to the floundering company they own.
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.....Says we posting on a forum, without an edit button, thats probably never been profitable.
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I bet it was profitable at least once. When Cowboy Neal sold it, I'm sure he turned a profit, even if only for that quarter.
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It doesn't matter.. They managed to stroke Musk's ego enough to the point where it wrote a big cheque for Twitter at an amazing $54/share. Turns out that Musk is having difficulties cashing said cheque, but it's still a legally binding purchase.
Musk is having buyer's remorse and trying desperately to escape from it, but Twitter is very interes
Re:Rearranging deck chairs on the titanic (Score:4, Informative)
He never actually wanted to buy it. I thought that was obvious from the start.
I really hope he's forced to at the ridiculous price he agreed to pay though. That would be really funny.
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I'd argue he still does want to buy it- just not at $54. This entire spectacle still seems like bargaining.
The emperor has been exposed as having no clothes- Twitter is clearly not worth even close to what he offered for it. They're not going to find another buyer. Their share price will collapse if the deal collapses. Offering him a discounted price is in shareholder's best interests.
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Typically, bargaining happens before you make the purchase, not afterward.
My guess is that his goal was just to pull a lot of cash out of Tesla. Whatever his goal, it certainly wasn't to actually buy Twitter.
Offering him a discounted price is in shareholder's best interests.
It's in their best interested to compel him to complete the purchase at the price he already agreed to pay.
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Should they not add new features?
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Should they not add new features?
No. Just look at slashdot, no new features since 1999 and still going strong!
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I hope the shareholders enjoy the value this adds to the floundering company they own.
Twitter never was profitable. Yet the value is insanely high. Don't assume the two are linked.
Covfefe (Score:1)
now we'll never know the true meaning of covfefe
Nice Information (Score:1)
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Receiving tweets via SMS (Score:2)
For those who receive tweets via SMS, this edit feature won't be able to revise an already-sent SMS message. This will limit the use of editing, it certainly won't allow people to correct mistakes that might be embarrasing.
Still around? (Score:2)
I couldn't figure out its value. It's simply a solution without a problem.
Re: Still around? (Score:2)
The only valet I've found is as equivalent to an email list. I follow some creators, and it's useful for seeing what's new. This of course goes to shit when a creator thinks the world needs to know their views on the current NPC cause du jour.
How stupid do you have to be to... (Score:2)
2) Pay money for an edit feature when all you have to do is delete the tweet for free and re-post a corrected tweet.
The bots don't care (Score:2)
They'll just post 500 new ones.