You yawp and you complained and you moan . And no , you ’re not getting your “ Edit Tweet ” clitoris , but Twitter is quiz something most as ripe . Will it make you happy ?
Users have long require , and Twitter has repeatedly refused to implement , a prick that would let them modify the mental object of tweets already broadcast . Yet before long users might be able to stop embarrassing themselves in the next best ( or perhaps an outright superior ) way : Taking back their tweets before they in reality go live .
Per9to5Mac , reverse engineering expert and fertile data mineworker Jane Manchun Wonghas discoveredthat Twitter is form on an “ undo send ” timekeeper for tweets , which appears to give user about five seconds after tweeting to rethink whether that was really a good idea . This is n’t the same affair as an edit button , but it does aid solve the problem of reach send and immediately realizing a message has a grammatical error , was in reply to the wrong user , was just ill - advise , or was outright ignorant .
Photo: Matt Rourke (AP)
Twitter is work on “ Undo Send ” timer for tweetspic.twitter.com/nS0kuijPK0
— Jane Manchun Wong ( @wongmjane)March 5 , 2021
The edit clitoris has been one of Twitter ’s most request features , but CEO Jack Dorsey say last class it will almost certainlynever be implementedbecause it ’s not like you could take back a text message either . ( The difference here is that the stakes of tweeting can be somewhat higher than texting , bet on how many masses read it . And the Wayback Machine is unrelenting . ) There are other obvious drawback to an edit characteristic , such as the certainty one of its self-aggrandizing use would be troll other Twitter user by luring them into responding to or quote - pinch stake that suddenly say something completely dissimilar .
“ We started as an SMS , textual matter content service . And as you all know , when you send a text , you ca n’t really take it back , ” Dorsey saidin a YouTube videowhen discussing the prospects of an edit button . “ We want to preserve that vibe , that feeling , in the early days … We ’ll belike never do it . ”
For now , you ’ll just have to make do with pretending you never run into send at all , which is belike for the good .
Jack DorseyOperating systemssoftwareTechnologyX ( Twitter )
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