Twitter is working on an edit button for real – TechCrunch

Apparently it wasn’t just an April Fools’ joke. As any true blue Twitter user knows, the divide over the social network adding an edit button is the deepest ideological ravine of our time — and Twitter is poised to switch sides.

The company confirmed that it is indeed working on an edit button Tuesday. Twitter started tinkering around with a tweet editing option last year and will test it out in Twitter Blue Labs, a corner of the platform’s premium subscription product where it tries out new features. Twitter Blue subscribers can expect to see an edit tweet button “in the coming months,” according to the company.

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