‘The answer is no’: Twitter users’ pleas for an ‘edit button’ shot down by Jack Dorsey – By Russia Today Staff (Russia Today) / Jan 15 2020
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has admitted that, despite high demand for the feature, the social media platform will “probably never” introduce an edit button allowing people to fix mistakes in their hastily posted tweets.
Cue the gasps from the Twitterati. An edit button has been a highly sought-after feature since the platform’s earliest days — but the company has always dodged the issue or placated users by saying it was ‘considering’ the idea.
In a video Q&A with Wired on Tuesday, however, Dorsey was more direct than ever on the issue. Answering a question about whether an edit button will be introduced in 2020, the straight-faced CEO said simply: “The answer is no.”
Dorsey explained that the initial decision not to introduce an edit-tweet feature was because Twitter started “as an SMS, text message service” and it wanted to stick to its roots.
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