Twitter edit button: After tweeting something, you can change it if you make a mistake or typo. Twitter said on Wednesday as CEO Parag Agrawal welcomed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to its board of directors.
As soon as “the coming months,” Twitter says it plans to start testing a new feature with Twitter Blue subscribers.
No, we haven’t been working on an “edit” feature for a long time, said the company.
“We didn’t come up with the idea from a poll (by Elon Musk). We’re going to start testing in @TwitterBlue. to learn more about how things work, what doesn’t, and how they could be done in the coming months. This is called “labs.” “Twitter said that.
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There has been a lot of demand for an “edit” button on Twitter for a long time now, says Jay Sullivan, the company’s VP of consumer products.
“If you make mistakes, typos or hot takes while you’re writing, people want to be able to fix them right away. In the past, they have deleted and tweeted again to get around this “It was Wednesday when Sullivan said this.
Without things like time limits, controls, and public information about what has been changed, “Edit could be used to change the record of the public conversation,” he said.
To protect that public conversation is our top priority when we start this work.
Because it will take a long time and cost money, “We will be looking for input and thinking about things in a different way before we launch Edit. We will treat this feature with care and thought, and we will let you know how things are going as we go “Tweet thread: He said that.
When Jack Dorsey was CEO of Twitter, he didn’t want to add an “edit” button in the past.
Twitter will get a lot better in the next few months, says Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who started a poll this week to see if he’s more than 80 million followers want an “edit” button on the site.
