People Thank Elon Musk For Adding ‘Edit’ Button After He Is Announced As Twitter’s Newest Board Member
The feature will initially be rolled out to Twitter Blue subscribers.
It is finally happening. Twitter will soon be introducing the “edit button” to its platform in the coming days. The micro-blogging site confirmed that it’ll start testing the feature with Twitter Blue subscribers in “the coming months.”
1/ We’ve been exploring how to build an Edit feature in a safe manner since last year and plan to begin testing it within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months. Sharing a few more insights on how we’re thinking about Edit 🧵 https://t.co/WbcfkUue8e
— Jay Sullivan (@jaysullivan) April 5, 2022
In a Twitter thread, the company’s VP, Jay Sullivan elaborated on the matter saying the editing functionality has been “the most requested Twitter feature for many years” further adding that Twitter has been looking to build it “in a safe manner since last year.”
now that everyone is asking…
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022
yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year!
no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll 😉
we're kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.
Back in 2018, Twitter’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, had shared his reluctance towards adding the feature as it would let users change a tweet’s meaning after it was widely shared. Fast forward to 2020, he doubled down on his comments stating that Twitter would “probably never” add the edit option.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022
This doesn’t come as a surprise, especially after Elon Musk recently acquired about a 9.2 per cent stake in the company and conducted a poll on whether Twitter should add an edit button. The result was that 73.4 per cent of users were in favour of the option.
Speaking of whom, the billionaire was also welcomed as a board member of the company, after initial internal discussions. This was confirmed by Twitter CEO, Parag Agarwal, who wrote –
I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022
To which, Musk replied with this –
Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022
Now, exactly what changes Musk wishes to implement remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the news of the edit button being added to Twitter has been creating quite a buzz on the social media website. Here are some of our favourite reactions –
Twitter doesn't need an edit button cos if this feature is added, it will cause complete chaos which in turn will ruin the platform; Twitter thrives on raw tweets, editing a tweet will affect the quoted retweets, replies & shared articles contextually. An edit button is a no-no.
— Daniel Regha (@DanielRegha) April 1, 2022
https://t.co/9Zy8qAOol6 pic.twitter.com/K2GDxzq1Ye
— Louan (@louanben) April 6, 2022
I had no idea an edit button could be such a long project. Who knew?
— Apterasaurusrex🦖☀️ (@ThinkFab) April 6, 2022
Wait…. this was real?! https://t.co/ICKErw4Gu2
— ringwiss (@ringwiss) April 5, 2022
You make a simple edit feature sound like astrophysics
— Some Guy (@GoodKidDadCity) April 5, 2022
Make it a feature that exists for only, say, 2 minutes after you tweet, to allow for typo corrections
— Attorney-at-Law (@TheGlare_TM) April 5, 2022
For the sake of journalists I sincerely hope there’s an edit history available for us to view
— Doha Madani (Taylor's Version)🧣 (@DohaMadani) April 5, 2022
Some of us have had an edit button from the very beginning. Just sayin…
— Quora (@Quora) April 5, 2022