Twitter confirmed that it has been exploring how to include the Edit feature since last year. It plans to start testing this in the coming months. The communications team posted on Twitter about the edit button, although they say the idea did not come from a poll, referring to Elon Musk’s recent poll about the same. Musk became a major contributor to Twitter, and also joined the board of directors as recently reported. By the way, the Twitter team posted about an “edit” button on April 1st as well, but everyone thought it was an April Fools’ Day joke.
According to Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s chief product officer, the company has been exploring how to create a “secure editing feature” and will begin testing this at Twitter Blue Labs in the coming months.
Sullivan wrote in a Twitter thread that the “Edit” button remains the most requested because users want to “fix (sometimes embarrassing) typos and typos.” However, he added, “Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been modified, the modification can be abused to alter the history of the public conversation.”
He added that Twitter knows it will need to protect the integrity of that public conversation when an edit button is included. “Therefore, it will take time and we will actively seek input and aggressive thinking before launching the editorial. We will handle this feature carefully and thoughtfully and share updates as we move forward,” he wrote.
Now that everyone is asking…
Yes, we have been working on the editing feature since last year!
No, we didn’t get the idea from the poll 😉
We are starting the tests indoors Tweet embed Labs in the coming months to see what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible.
Twitter Messages (TwitterComms) April 5 2022
1/ We have been exploring how to create a secure editing feature since last year and plan to start testing it indoors Tweet embed laboratories in the coming months. Sharing some other thoughts on how we think about editing 🧵 https://t.co/WbcfkUue8e
– Jay Sullivan (@jaysullivan) April 5 2022
Why is there no “edit” button yet?
Twitter’s “Edit” button remains a tall order. But one reason this feature isn’t available is former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, who resigned last year. India-born Parag Agrawal is now the CEO of Twitter. Dorsey had told Wired in 2020 that he “may never do that” when asked about adding an edit option. According to Dorsey, the idea goes back to Twitter’s original design. “We started as an SMS text service. And as you all know, when you send a text message, you really can’t get it back,” Dorsey said. “We wanted to keep that feeling, in the early days,” he adds.
However, Twitter’s Kayvon Beykpour has said in the past that it’s a feature they’ll need to build at some point even though it wasn’t on their priority list. Well, it seems that “never” can be said in the tech world.
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