This month, Twitter announced the ground-shaking news that it was actually going to offer users a way to edit tweets — a longtime user request. And it would have been the biggest Twitter story in years, if it weren’t for the Elon Musk takeover attempt. Now, it appears work on Twitter’s Edit button has already begun, according to a handful of tweets from reverse engineers who have documented the feature’s early beginnings.
Twitter had said that it was taking care to ensure the Edit button would not be able to be misused by bad actors looking to “alter the record of the public conversation” after the fact. But how exactly Twitter plans to ensure a tweet’s edit history is highlighted has been less clear. Twitter itself may not even have a solid idea as to how this will look in the app’s user interface. But the draft version of …
