A Twitter Edit button sounds good, but it really isn`t.
I`ve been paying $3/month for a Twitter Blue account for months. It offers various `premium` features that vary by platform, including select ad-free articles, bookmark folders, themes, and custom app icons. However, those features aren`t why I continue to pay for a membership. That would be the Undo Tweet feature, which lets you edit or delete a tweet after tapping the Tweet button for up to 60 seconds.
Now comes word Twitter is thinking about giving users an actual Edit button. The feature, which is expected to ship to Twitter Blue customers first, would let users edit already published tweets at any time.
On the surface, this sounds like a worthwhile move and one that Twitter`s newly crowned larger shareholder, Elon Musk, has been advocating for some time. However, I`d suggest offering an Edit button would be bad news for Twitter and its users.
The everyday Twitter user can currently send out a 280-character tweet on supp...
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