SAN FRANCISCO, United States —
Twitter announced Tuesday it will soon start experimenting with an edit button, but
only on its monthly subscription service at first.
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The inability to tweak tweets after firing them off
has been a key complaint among users of the one-to-many messaging platform.
Word that the company would start testing an edit
feature on Twitter Blue came after newly-named board member
Elon Musk conducted
an online poll.
In a tweet, Musk asked if people wanted an edit
button at Twitter. Nearly 4.4 million votes were cast, some 73 percent of them
saying “yes.”
“Now that everyone is asking... yes, we’ve been
working on an edit feature since last year,” Twitter posted on its
communications account.
“No, we didn’t get the idea from a poll,” it added,
poking fun at the
Tesla boss.
According to
Jay Sullivan, the company’s head of
consumer product, “Edit” has been the most requested Twitter feature “for many
years”.
“People want to be able to fix (sometimes embarrassing)
mistakes, typos, and hot takes in the moment. They currently work around this
by deleting and tweeting again,” Sullivan said in a tweet-thread.
The
San Francisco-based internet firm said it will
kick off testing in coming months to figure out what works when it comes to
letting users tinker with posts after they have gone live.
Twitter Blue lets people pay a monthly subscription
fee of $3 to access special content or features.
Blue is available on the Twitter application for
Apple or
Android smartphones in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US,
according to the company.
Twitter also announced Tuesday that Musk will join
its board, boosting hopes the eccentric entrepreneur will lift the social media
company’s prospects — although some observers expressed wariness of the
billionaire’s influence.
Twitter CEO
Parag Agrawal called Musk “a passionate
believer and intense critic of the service which is exactly what we need,”
while Musk said he looked forward to soon making “significant improvements to Twitter.”
Musk, who also leads the
SpaceX venture and is the
world’s richest man, on Monday had announced his purchase of 73.5 million
Twitter shares, or 9.2 percent of the company’s common stock.
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who stepped
down as CEO last year, had long opposed an “edit” button on the basis that
users could change a tweet that had already been widely shared, changing its
meaning or context.
Sullivan addressed those concerns in his posts.
“Without things like time limits, controls, and
transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the
record of the public conversation,” he said, adding that that company’s top
priority is “protecting the integrity of that public conversation.”
He noted that “it will take time” to develop the “Edit”
feature and the company will be “actively seeking input and adversarial
thinking” in advance of its launch.
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