Twitter announced Tuesday, via Twitter, that it is indeed working on an edit feature for tweets.
and it has been working on it since last year — and that it didn’t get the idea from Musk’s poll.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.”Elon Musk has used Twitter to violate securities law and smear his critics. Placing him on the Twitter board is a terrible idea.
So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to answer whether it was a feature that would be rolled out for all users. Twitter’s vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday that an edit feature has for years been the most requested, since people want to fix mistakes, typos, and “hot takes.”January 2020 Q&A
maintained that “we’ll probably never do it.” He cited wanting to keep the spirit of Twitter’s text-message origins — texts can’t be edited — and the confusion that could result from users making changes to a tweet that has already been highly circulated by others. Dorsey
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