He told TechCrunch that from what he observed in code from the Twitter website, the Edit button didn’t actually edit the tweet on the back end — it creates another, new tweet.

Edited tweets will appear with an icon, label and timestamp to make it obvious they have been modified, and users can click through to a tweet’s “edit history” to see past versions.

How to edit tweets on Twitter Right now, the only users who can edit their tweets are Twitter Blue subscribers. Twitter Blue is Twitter's paid service ($4.99 per month) that lets you read news ...

Twitter is finally testing an edit button 2 years after Jack Dorsey said it would 'probably' never happen — here's how to be first in line to use it By Katie Canales Twitter; Insider ...

Twitter said in — where else? — a tweet Thursday morning that some users may start seeing edited tweets in their feed because it is testing the long-awaited edit button.