Twitter has confirmed it is working on an edit feature, and it looks like it might have a digital trace of your tweet's history. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong shares in a tweet that the edit function appears to have an "immutable" quality, meaning Twitter may create an entirely new tweet when one is edited while preserving its previous versions. It's unclear how the edit history will appear to users. But we're hoping Twitter does make it public.
That is a reasonable approach to the feature if you think about it. And it could address the concerns of those who believe editing tweets will alter the public record and mislead users. So far, we've seen how the edit button could appear in the interface.