Twitter Says It’s Getting an Edit Button, but Not Because of Elon Musk
IN THE WORKS
Social network says it was already working on feature to allow user to edit their tweets even before the Tesla CEO, who backs the idea, bought himself a seat on the Twitter board.
Twitter has confirmed that it’s developing an edit button, but denies the move has anything to do with Tesla CEO Elon Musk joining its board after buying 9.2 percent of the company. The function, which is going to be tested on Twitter’s premium Blue service, will allow users to edit tweets with mistakes or typos instead of having to delete them and start again. More than 4.4 million people have responded to a poll on Musk’s Twitter feed asking whether they wanted an edit button, which he supports. But in a post on Tuesday night, the company insisted an edit button had been in the works since last year—“no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll,” the social media giant said, with a winky emoji.
now that everyone is asking…
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.
