This isn't a joke — Twitter is actually working on an edit button

• Twitter announced on April Fools' Day that it's working on bringing an edit feature to the platform.
• The company has apparently been working on the feature since last year.
• The edit feature will be tested in the coming months on Twitter Blue Labs.
• The news comes just after it was announced that Elon Musk is being appointed as a Twitter chair.

In a surprise announcement on Tuesday, the company said that it is working on an edit button. The company made a joke about it on April 1st.

The edit feature has been in the works for a while. We are still a long way from its launch, and it will start testing in the coming months on Blue Labs.

The announcement includes a glimpse of how the feature could work, with the user selecting the three-dot menu at the top right corner of a tweet and selecting the option to "Edit" it.

👀 pic.twitter.com/I13wE3eLdnApril 5, 2022

See more

The composer and how the tweet would be edited are not shown in the GIF.

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS FOR YOU...

Due to the fact that typos can ruin an otherwise great tweet, the edit button has been a highly requested feature on the micro-blogging site for years. The platform has seemingly been adamant about not bringing it to it's platform, opting instead to launch a feature that gives a five-second delay for a user to cancel their account.

Other apps give users the ability to change their posts. The social media site teased the micro-blogging site for not having the option.

Just after it was announced that Musk would be joining the board, the announcement was made. The decision to bring an edit button to the platform wasn't the result of a poll, as a nod to Musk who recently asked if users wanted an edit button.

The results of the poll will be important, according to Parag Agrawal, the new CEO.

The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully. https://t.co/UDJIvznALBApril 5, 2022

See more

There is concern that the feature could be abused, even though an edit button could help us fix our typos. In an interview in 2020, former CEO Jack Dorsey was asked if he would add an edit button, to which he simply responded "No." He suggested that the "Undo" option was the best way to go for simple typos, and that the platform would probably never have an edit button.

With the new CEO and now with Musk on the board, it seems like there will be some welcome changes.

Jay Sullivan, the head of consumer product at Twitter, explained how the edit button is one way that the company hopes to give users more control over how they engage with others on the app. He points out that the company needs to approach this with care and thought.

Sullivan says that protecting the integrity of the public conversation is their top priority.