The ability to edit tweets is coming—but it’s full of risks. This is how to do it right.
for paid-up members of Twitter Blue. So rather than launching a full-on edit button, Twitter might consider limiting the amount of time a user has to edit a tweet after hitting send. That would help get rid of typos while also not encouraging nefarious behavior.
Many researchers specializing in disinformation share the concern that an edit feature may be used by bad-faith actors. “I’m falling on the ‘seems like a bad idea right now’ side of things, at least on surface value,” says Sarita Schoenebeck, who is director of the Living Online Lab at the University of Michigan, which studies human-computer interaction, and is currently on sabbatical as a paid consultant on Twitter’s Birdwatch community fact-checking team.
But it’s not just the potential for abuse that makes the edit function questionable. Schoenebeck is also concerned that it will cause confusion among good-faith users. “I don’t think, from an interface design perspective, it would make it clear what the trajectory of a tweet was,” she says. Essentially, if it is poorly implemented it would be hard to tell whether a tweet was edited before or after going viral.
Such concerns are hopefully what’s driving Twitter’s limited trial of the edit button feature—and may mean that any final version has very restricted functionality. “Twitter is basically a sociotechnical system,” says Wodtke, meaning that any technological change to Twitter’s software or functionality will have knock-on effects on the way people interact with it, and with each other.
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