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Twitter will let you retweet yourself but everyone just wants an edit button

But still no sign of an edit button.

Karissa Bell

on June 14, 2016

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Oh Twitter, will you ever be able to make us happy?

In a move that will make narcissists everywhere rejoice, Twitter now allows you to retweet your own tweets, which is great and all, but everyone really just wants an edit button.

Twitter announced the change Tuesday (by retweeting this tweet, announcing the retweet feature, from 2009.)

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Previously, you could only retweet tweets sent by other accounts, which helped give rise to the tweetstorm.

Naturally, Twitter reacted quickly, with complaining about the absence of that long-requested edit button -- a point that also came up in the wake of Twitter's changes to its character limit last month. (And one that has come up with just about every significant product change Twitter has made over the last several years.)

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Still, others were pretty excited at the thought of reliving their best tweets.

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Karissa Bell

Karissa was Mashable's Senior Tech Reporter, and is based in San Francisco. She covers social media platforms, Silicon Valley, and the many ways technology is changing our lives. Her work has also appeared in Wired, Macworld, Popular Mechanics, and The Wirecutter. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding and watching too many cat videos on Instagram. Follow her on Twitter @karissabe.