Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and founder of SpaceX, revealed earlier this week that he owns a 9.2% stake in Twitter, worth $3 billion. It makes him the largest contributor to Twitter. Now, it looks like Musk will use his Twitter pull to make one change to the app that users have been waiting for years – the Edit button.
Do you want an edit button? Asked Musk in a direct tweet, leaving the poll with two options, he may have intentionally misspelled it as “yse” and “on.” This may or may not be a smart indication of misspellings, which is one of the main reasons why Twitter users ask for an edit button.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal tweeted Musk’s tweet saying, “The consequences of this poll will be significant. Please vote carefully.”
The results of this survey will be important. Please vote carefully. https://t.co/UDJIvznALB
Paraga Agrawal April 5 2022
Twitter itself announced that it was working on an edit button on April 1, which many suspected was an April Fools’ joke. According to a report from ReutersWhen asked if the tweet was a joke, the company replied, “We cannot confirm or deny but may amend our statement later.”
For some context, the edit button has been a much needed feature on the micro-blogging platform for years now. Twitter, which is a platform often used by many journalists, politicians, and other influential people around the world, has always kept a strict about tweets, allowing no changes to a tweet once it has been posted.
25% of users don’t want an edit button
There is still debate about whether or not Twitter should have an edit button. At the time of writing, Musk’s tweet had 75 percent of users vote in favor of the edit button, and 25 percent against him.
Liz Wheeler from The Liz Wheeler Show (@Liz_Wheeler) Survey comments about how the edit button has been misused to change the sentiment or meaning of a Tweet after it gained so much traction. Meta CTO Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (boztank) He pointed out that simple “editor” Flagging edited tweets can solve this problem, and it’s a step Facebook is currently implementing.
We analyzed this on Facebook a long time ago. You are just including an indicator that it was edited with the changelog. If you’re really concerned about the inclusions, they can point to a specific revision in that history but with a link to the last edit. Not a real issue.
– Boz (boztank) April 5 2022
There might be other ways to make sure that doesn’t happen, such as making tweets only editable after a certain amount of time after they’ve been posted. This will help users correct misspellings, flag people who forgot to tag or make other quick changes in important tweets. As of now, these tweets must be deleted and posted again.
Twitter is likely still deciding whether or not the edit button should come to the platform, and it remains to be seen how much weight Musk’s poll will carry over the final decision. Maybe we’ll find out in the coming weeks.
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