Tweets, finally editable?

Sing it (or Tweet it) from the mountain tops: Twitter is adding an edit button.

For years, people have been screaming for an edit button to avoid those pesky follow-up tweets to correct typos, but Jack Dorsey was always very much against due to some concern regarding abuse. Look, I get it. People could wait for a post to go viral and then change it, but the odds are pretty slim. All signs point to the fact that Facebook's edit feature has not been abused (that platform gets abused for far more nefarious reasons).

The lack of an edit button on Twitter has been something of running joke for quite some time; I mean, who hasn't seen the infamous "Tweets, but editable" tweet after a typo? Finally, on Friday, Twitter tweeted out they were working on an edit button which set the Twitter-world ablaze until many (including myself) finally realized they were tweeting it out on the long-since-lost-its-relevance day of April Fool's Day. I admit they got me with that one.

However, today the official Twitter Comms account tweeted out they were indeed working on an edit button that will soon rollout to the Twitter Blue subscribers as an experiment to see what works. Right now, there has been no official acknowledgement on whether this will ultimately roll out to all users or remain behind a paywall, but we can only hope this becomes a standard feature going forward.

Will we finally see a true edit button? Will it get abused? Does this have anything to do with Elon's poll he created the same day he bought a majority stake in Twitter? Okay, that one is highly unlikely. Nonetheless, keep an eye on this as it appears the tweets may ultimately become editable.