Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets

Twitter is working on a feature that could offer users a short window of time to rethink posting a tweet even after they hit send.

The company confirmed to CNN Business on Friday it is testing an undo option that would potentially let users retract or correct a tweet before it's officially posted on the platform.

The feature was discovered by Jane Manchun Wong, an app developer who has a strong track record of uncovering new tools on social networks before they're released. Wong posted a GIF on Twitter that shows a blue "undo" bar appearing beneath the words "Your Tweet was sent." (It's possible the feature could change before it formally rolls out -- if it ever does.)

It's not quite the edit button users have long requested, but it's a step toward helping users proactively catch errors and slow down before sending impulse tweets.
The feature is reminiscent of Gmail's existing recall tool, which allows users up to 30 seconds to retract sending an email.

Last year, Twitter (TWTR) told investors it was mulling a subscription service and was evaluating exclusive options for paying users, including an "undo send" feature. At the time, the company said it asked users in a survey to evaluate which options were most or least important to them.

"Over the course of this year, you'll see us test subscription products in public," the company's investor relations' Twitter account teased earlier this week. "You'll hear more about them. And hopefully, you'll see some of these products roll out as well."

Last month, Twitter said it is exploring other subscription opportunities, such as a way for users to become paid subscribers to Twitter accounts they like to receive additional content such as exclusive announcements and newsletters. The company has also set an ambitious goal to double its annual revenue by the end of 2023.

Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets

Twitter is working on a feature that could offer users a short window of time to rethink posting a tweet even after they hit send.

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[AltisticRight]

Now undo the entire fucking website, undo Jack's mum's pregnancy too.

 

[Fentanyl Floyd]

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Twitter is working on a feature that could offer users a short window of time to rethink posting a tweet even after they hit send.

The company confirmed to CNN Business on Friday it is testing an undo option that would potentially let users retract or correct a tweet before it's officially posted on the platform.

The feature was discovered by Jane Manchun Wong, an app developer who has a strong track record of uncovering new tools on social networks before they're released. Wong posted a GIF on Twitter that shows a blue "undo" bar appearing beneath the words "Your Tweet was sent." (It's possible the feature could change before it formally rolls out -- if it ever does.)

It's not quite the edit button users have long requested, but it's a step toward helping users proactively catch errors and slow down before sending impulse tweets.
The feature is reminiscent of Gmail's existing recall tool, which allows users up to 30 seconds to retract sending an email.

Last year, Twitter (TWTR) told investors it was mulling a subscription service and was evaluating exclusive options for paying users, including an "undo send" feature. At the time, the company said it asked users in a survey to evaluate which options were most or least important to them.

"Over the course of this year, you'll see us test subscription products in public," the company's investor relations' Twitter account teased earlier this week. "You'll hear more about them. And hopefully, you'll see some of these products roll out as well."

Last month, Twitter said it is exploring other subscription opportunities, such as a way for users to become paid subscribers to Twitter accounts they like to receive additional content such as exclusive announcements and newsletters. The company has also set an ambitious goal to double its annual revenue by the end of 2023.

Twitter is testing an 'undo' option after sending tweets

Twitter is working on a feature that could offer users a short window of time to rethink posting a tweet even after they hit send.

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Guess you better start archiving shit quicker

 

[Terrifik]

https://twitter.com/TheInsiderPaper/status/1398038137327304705

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

The edit button is the Twitter leftist's wet dream.

They can put out the most vile shit, antagonizing or insulting whoever they want. They wait a couple minutes, then edit it to "I like puppies" and the other person looks like a psychopath and gets report swarmed, where some overworked Hindu guy with a shitty Boston accent glances at it and yeets the guy who got insulted, and they get to run off giggling to furiously masturbate.

I think it would be hilarious, since the whole site would basically end up nothing more than an even bigger cage of shit flinging monkeys furiously editing their insults and racial slurs out of their tweets.

 

[biophonic]

The undo function would be viable if it gave you a 5 minute timer before you delete the message or tweet, other than that i think if you posted past that time. you meant what you said. personally idgaf what people say on the internet anymore, just give them all the time in the world regardless of an undo function or not and they'll expose themselves as idiots if they haven't already.

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

I avoid Twitter out of principle, but I am genuinely curious: could having a publicly-viewable edit/revision history be a good idea? I know Facebook allows viewing edit history (this is how we get some good info on our cows, aka Russell Greer). Being able to see a Twatter’s frantic edit history with time stamps could be a great way to find more material.

 

[Gottahavemysips]

Eh, I'm with you ONLY if the edit has a timer in it, like you only get a few hours or so max to edit it. This prevents hijacking and backpedaling when tweets go viral and they want to renege on something or to add additional shit like when Reddit fags do the "Whoa, my first Reddit Gold!" routine. Plus allowing anyone to edit their tweets at any time will also cause a lot of memory-holing in our forever gaslighting society.

There's been times when I tweeted stuff and accidentally confused they're/their/there and looked like an idiot because I couldn't edit it, so I'd support an edit feature if it only allowed that short window of time to fix it immediately after sending.

So long as the option to delete a tweet exists, a lot of what you said is still possible. I don't think time gating would change anything, people would just continue to delete stupid tweets and go protected like they do now.

 

[AnotherPleb]

I avoid Twitter out of principle, but I am genuinely curious: could having a publicly-viewable edit/revision history be a good idea? I know Facebook allows viewing edit history (this is how we get some good info on our cows, aka Russell Greer). Being able to see a Twatter’s frantic edit history with time stamps could be a great way to find more material.

They won't allow anyone to see that edit history.