Twitter tests out 'edit' button, says work began before Musk poll
Twitter has
tweeted that it is indeed working on a way for users to edit their
280-character messages, although it says the project has nothing to do with the
fact that edit-function fan Elon Musk was just
revealed as the company's largest shareholder and now sits on its board.
Twitter on
Tuesday 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. So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use
it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say
whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users - among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry
and McDonald's corporate account - have long begged for an edit button. The
company itself recently teased users with an April Fool's Day tweet saying we
are working on an edit button. The official Twitter account said Tuesday that
the April 1 tweet wasn't a joke and that it has been working on it since last
year.
Twitter also said it didn't get the idea from a Twitter poll
launched by Tesla CEO Musk Monday evening. Musk, himself a Twitter power user,
asked followers if they wanted an edit button, cheekily misspelling yes as yse
and no as on. More than 4 million people had voted as of Tuesday evening.
Musk also tweeted that he is looking forward to making significant
improvements to Twitter in coming months!
Twitter's vice president of consumer product, Jay Sullivan, tweeted Tuesday
that an edit function has for years been Twitter's most requested new feature,
noting that people want to fix mistakes, typos, and hot takes.
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