Plainly, regardless of this, Twitter has certainly labored out easy methods to present related context to keep away from confusion, at the least in tweet embeds.

As you possibly can see in these instance tweet embeds, shared by reverse engineering professional Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter is presently engaged on new messages that can be appended to tweets which have been edited after being embedded on a third-party web site.

The 2 messages are:

‘Final edited [date]’

And:

‘There’s a brand new model of this tweet’

So once more, after years of issues that enabling folks to edit tweets may result in adverse misinterpretations, within the case of edits that alter the unique that means, Twitter appears to have conquered this drawback with pretty minimal fuss.

In fact, there could also be a number of back-end code work concerned, and it’s unattainable for non tweet-folk to know simply how tough that is to really implement. But it surely looks as if a reasonably easy resolution, which might be added to any tweet, within the app or exterior of it, that’s been up to date.

Twitter confirmed again in April that it’s certainly engaged on an edit button, after, once more, years of railing towards it. Potential Twitter chief Elon Musk then vaguely claimed accountability for the change in route (which Twitter denied), whereas preliminary exams of the choice have additionally included a full edit historical past and different components to make sure transparency over edited content material.

General, it truly looks as if tweet modifying is nowhere close to as arduous to implement as Twitter has made out – however then once more, that’s with out the total improvement data, and there could be different points with edits in future, even with these extra notes and explainers.

But it surely appears fairly logical, fairly simple to comply with. Which may imply that an edit possibility could be coming quickly – perhaps as one of many final main adjustments earlier than Musk takes over.

If and each time that could be.