KATE THOMPSON DAVY: Redact, rephrase, retweet: Twitter’s edit button goes to live testing

How long have we been bandying about the idea of an edit button for Twitter? Arguably since the first typo got accidentally posted. Yes, Twitter’s most asked-for feature (edit functionality) is becoming a reality, but only — for now — in limited terms.

The news broke last week — as so much news does — in a tweet. The official ‎@Twitter‎ account (and its blog) confirmed that the functionality is indeed being tested by the internal team in September, with a view to extending this to Twitter Blue subscribers “in the coming weeks”...

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