Article 622XA Twitter will tell you if an embedded tweet has been edited

Twitter will tell you if an embedded tweet has been edited

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Jay Peters
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We're still waiting for Twitter to begin publicly testing its not-an-April-Fools'-joke edit feature, but thanks to some sleuthing from app researcher Jane Manchun Wong, we now have an idea of how edited tweets will look when they're embedded on a website.

Wong discovered how things could look in two different scenarios. If you're embedding the most recently edited version of a tweet, you'll see a Last edited" message under the text of the tweet. But if the tweet has been edited since it was embedded, you'll instead see a message indicating that there's a new version of the tweet that you can see on Twitter proper.

Embedded Tweets will show whether it's been edited, or whether there's a new version of the Tweet

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