These seem like good ways to tell viewers if they're seeing the latest amended tweet or if they need to visit Twitter. Twitter hasn't officially rolled out edit functionality, so these implementations may change.

The company said it made the change to respect the author's request to delete their tweet and to provide a better message than a blank box. When a deleted tweet was embedded, a blank tweet embed box appeared. Twitter has had issues with deleted tweets hosted on websites. A lot of news coverage relies on tweets, therefore a tweet's content might affect the entire piece. The updated tweet includes a label that reads 'There's a new version of the tweet' and a link to the latest version on Twitter.Įmbeds are indeed a crucial experience of the platform since they let anonymous individuals access Twitter.

The second example shows a modified tweet that was embedded on a website. In the first example, a website embeds a changed tweet with the latest modification time. Wong showed how embeds and editing tweets work together. Instead, it shows an indicator there’s a new version /mAz5tOiyOl When a site embeds a Tweet and it gets edited, the embed doesn’t just show the new version (replacing the old one). Screenshots she published this week reveal embedded tweets will indicate if the author changed the tweet after the site posted it, leaving the original content intact.Įmbedded Tweets will show whether it’s been edited, or whether there’s a new version of the Tweet Thanks to app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, we now have a notion of what modified tweets can seem like when they are embedded on a website. Would Twitter changes be dynamic or static? OR would Twitter provide a radically new feature in addition to or instead of either option? Given how often tweets are used, the answer appears philosophical. Although Twitter hasn't yet launched its edit tweet feature, one lingering question is how they will look on other websites.

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