Rumor: Twitter to let posted tweets edit

Twitter works, according to a U.s. techjournalist to the ability to send messages edit after posting, so that, for example, misspellings can be adjusted. This would tweets bad limited can be adjusted.

According to techjournalist Matthew Keys, who, incidentally, at Reuters was fired after he was on his personal Twitter account, incorrect information about the attack during the marathon in Boston would have spread, the possibility sometime in the coming weeks or months. That’s what he says to have heard from three sources within Twitter. The functionality would first be available to a select gathering, including politicians, celebrities and big news outlets.

The functionality would only be intended for making small adjustments to tweets, such as the removal of a word, the repair of a typo or the addition of two words. In addition, it would be a Tweet, a maximum of one time can be adjusted. At the same time, it would not be visible to users when a tweet has been edited.

There may be a limit to the number of characters that, after placing in a tweet is modified, all of Twitter would also work on an algorithm to recognize when a tweet the content of meaning changes. That way would be a Tweet, that much is from so not suddenly, for example, can be replaced by an ad.