{"id":5303,"date":"2022-04-09T07:38:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T05:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/ten-tweets-in-need-of-the-new-edit-button-from-covfefe-to-oscars-selfie\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T07:38:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T05:38:13","slug":"ten-tweets-in-need-of-the-new-edit-button-from-covfefe-to-oscars-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/ten-tweets-in-need-of-the-new-edit-button-from-covfefe-to-oscars-selfie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one<\/p>\n<p>After years of public pestering, Twitter has finally begun work on an edit button, the company announced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterComms\/status\/1511456430024364037\">this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to alter existing tweets has long been the platform\u2019s most-requested feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jaysullivan\/status\/1511457596569382917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1511457597768929285%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2022%2F4%2F5%2F23011327%2Ftwitter-edit-button-blue-test\">according to a vice-president<\/a>, Jay Sullivan. But the company has expressed concerns that an edit button could be \u201cmisused to alter the record of the public conversation\u201d. \u201cProtecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work,\u201d Sullivan wrote.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/09\/twitter-ten-tweets-in-need-of-edit-covfefe-oscars-selfie\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5e87b4deaf5b74f43da111b6681aeb44ba1cc08b\/0_0_1920_1152\/master\/1920.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=80edbdcc068d7bb209127ff4e9907a1e\" title=\"Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfie\" \/>As Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one<br \/>\nAfter years of public pestering, Twitter has finally begun work on an edit button, the company announced this week.<br \/>\nThe ability to alter existing tweets has long been the platform\u2019s most-requested feature, according to a vice-president, Jay Sullivan. But the company has expressed concerns that an edit button could be \u201cmisused to alter the record of the public conversation\u201d. \u201cProtecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work,\u201d Sullivan wrote. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Twitter prepares to roll out its new edit function, a look back at the tweets that could have done with one After years of public pestering, Twitter has finally begun work on an edit button, the company announced this week. The ability to alter existing tweets has long been the platform\u2019s most-requested feature, according &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/ten-tweets-in-need-of-the-new-edit-button-from-covfefe-to-oscars-selfie\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ten tweets in need of the new edit button: from covfefe to Oscars selfie<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}