After many years of users clamoring for the feature, Twitter announced earlier this month that it is actually working on an edit button for the platform. But using it to fix typos won’t erase evidence of your past mistakes.
“Editing” your tweets won’t actually change the original tweet’s content at all, according to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong. Instead, the original tweet will still very much exist on your timeline — it will be “immutable,” Wong says — while the edited content will exist as a totally separate tweet.
