.elonmusk bashes cryptospam bots, runs a new poll and causes some on the Twitter team to quit. michaelsayman
, he is already conducting a second poll on possible changes to Twitter's functionality and is hinting that he might deal with crypto spam bots on"his" social network in the future.
This is not the first time the centibillionaire has complained about crypto scams on Twitter—except now we know he is the single biggest shareholder of this platform.The Tesla boss and now also the investor who holds 9.2% of Twitter shares single-handedly,has launched a poll to find out if Twitter users would like to have an edit button for their tweets and comments.
A total of 2,522,614 people have already voted, while there are still 14 hours until the survey ends. One of the suggestions sent to Musk on this was a"yes"—provided there is a link to the original, uncorrected version of the text, with the edit function being available for only 5-10 minutes to prevent multiple editing of the same tweet/comment.
Michael Sayman, the product lead at Twitter, responded to Musk that the company's tech team is already working on building an edit button, quoting a message from April 1 by the Twitter team.
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