October 4, 2024

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Twitter’s upcoming editing feature can track tweet history

According to reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, editing a tweet using the next Twitter edit button can leave a digital trail of your tweet history. bee tweetManchun Wong explains that the editing feature appears to have an “immutable” quality, meaning that Twitter can create an entirely new tweet when it is edited, all while retaining previous versions of that tweet.

“Twitter’s approach to editing tweets appears to be immutable because instead of changing the tweet text within the same tweet (same ID), a new tweet is re-created with the changed content, along with a list of previous old tweets,” says Manchun Wong.

Like Manchun Wong comments:It’s unclear what, if any, users’ tweet edit history would look like. But if Twitter decides to make the history of the tweets public, it could be a way to allay concerns about potential abuse of the feature, as some critics believe it could be used in Change public record and mislead users.

The researcher in the application is also Alessandro Paluzzi tweet it What appear to be screenshots of the new feature gives us a glimpse of what the edit button might actually look like when it’s live on Twitter. In one screenshot, Paluzzi shows how the “Edit Tweet” option might appear in the three-dot menu to the right of your tweets.

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button selection It will lead you to a screen that looks a lot like a normal tweet author, except that it’s pre-filled with the text of your tweet and says “Update” in the lower right corner instead of “Tweet”. However, Paluzzi’s screenshots do not show any option to view the tweet’s edit history.

Twitter has yet to confirm the existence of a tweet history tracker. There’s nothing to share now but what’s inside Tweet from TwitterComms and that is Tweet from @JaySullivanIn an emailed statement, Twitter spokeswoman Anna Houpach said: the edge

Twitter first announced that it was working on a wanted edit button Earlier this month, after apparently I’m kidding about the April 1st feature† But before the official confirmation from Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk Check out his followers’ opinions on the edit button after detection Purchasing a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, to become the largest single contributor to Twitter. It’s been a whirlwind of events ever since, with Musk joins And Leave the Twitter boardand then Offer to buy the whole company† Current Twitter contributors Trying to prevent the purchase of musk through toxic pills