“COME BACK”. No, not really a button to edit the tweet. On that, we have to put a stone on it. Rather, a lightning-fast backtrack to be done within seconds, apparently you’re at your best. Before the content ends up online and, if it contains an error or inaccuracy, it must be trashed from scratch. Unless he has already garnered some reaction. A very talked about and awaited feature Twitter that would therefore be about to arrive: to discover it was the usual and very skilled analyst and expert in applications Jane Manchun Wong, not new to advances of this kind, which has released a screen on how the command could work, currently being tested.
Basically, the “Undo” button should materialize under the confirmation window of the sending of your tweet, which means the cancellation of the last operation performed, and a bar that, completing itself within a few seconds, will give the user the idea of how much time he has left to choose whether to retrace his steps, perhaps re-reading the content or defusing a post that is too controversial. Or, without doing anything, confirm the upload. Remember in part the opportunity that Gmail offers for your email, where the “Undo Send” command allows you to recall an email shortly after sending it (you can customize it to allow it to be done within 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds). And often save yourself from some bad mess.
Twitter is in full metamorphosis. And therefore it would not be surprising to see this novelty land on the apps of hundreds of millions of global users in a short time (in Italy 10.2 million use it every month). Last week, the bird’s social network announced new features that will profoundly change its appearance and dynamics of use, for example with the introduction of Super Follow, a kind of subscription plan that will transform every profile (or at least every profile worthy of arousing some interest) in a kind of OnlyFans: users will be able to pay to access exclusive content. And if the Spaces for audio chats similar to the Clubhouse rooms have been operational for months (for a few days also available for Android users, even if at the moment you can only participate and talk but you can not create new ones) will also arrive Communities: that is, you can choose to send certain contents only to specific groups of users, gathered around common interests. All in a desperate attempt to return to growth, aiming for 315 million “monetizable” daily users (as the company has renamed them) and a doubling of revenues by 2023.
Among other things, the Super Follow it is not an isolated choice. If Spotify has just explained that it will introduce the possibility of establishing subscriptions for podcasts made by users, Clubhouse will also soon allow you to charge tickets to access specific rooms, or tip the moderators during the course of the conversation. The road is clear, and it is not secondary that it is taken after so many months of isolation and hyperactivity on social media: it returns again, but with more functional tools halfway between those available on TikTok, YouTube and those developed by specialized platforms such as Patreon and OnlyFans, the desire to feed the involvement of users allowing them to earn. And triggering dynamics that flatter (and reward) those able to stimulate their audience in a more lively way.
Returning to Twitter, in short, it is not a question of the coveted edit button, an old and heartfelt request from most users that Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO, has repeatedly excluded because it would betray the nature of the social network (more than what is happening in the last months?). But it would still be a step forward. Indeed, back. The ability to quickly block a tweet in case you realize just after the “Tweet” a grammatical error, a problem of any kind, an overreaction or who knows what other blue pencil error. It could also be that the feature can only arrive for creators who decide to participate in the Super Follow program, as an additional tool to better manage their profile. Destined, for those who know how to do it, to become a new source of income.
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