Since time immemorial, users have begged Twitter for the ability to edit tweets. While this is unlikely to be a reality anytime soon – Jack Dorsey hinted at this in an interview – we can see a feature that addresses the problem, at least partially.
Reverse engineering assistant, Jane Manchun Wong, found evidence to suggest that Twitter is working on a “Undo send” timer for tweets. As can be seen below, it will apparently allow users to quickly delete a tweet after posting, similar to Gmail’s unsent email feature.
Twitter is working on the “Undo send” timer for tweets pic.twitter.com/nS0kuijPK0
– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021
While this does not completely address the need for editable tweets, it will be useful if you want to correct typos before someone ridicules you.
There is no information on when this feature will be available to users or whether it will be implemented as we currently see it. When that happens, however, it may only be available to a select few users, and we wouldn’t be surprised if it was initially limited to iOS – Twitter has a history of doing this (voice tweets and Spaces, for example).
