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Twitter considers ‘use cases’ for edit button, CEO Jack Dorsey says
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Twitter
CEO Jack Dorsey
said at a talk in India this week that the social media
platform has been weighing the idea for an edit button “for
quite some time.” - This is the first time since 2016 that Dorsey has commented
on the idea of an edit button on Twitter, a much-requested
feature whose supporters have adopted the rallying
cry “tweets
but editable” on social media. - In June, Kim Kardashian shared that she
had lobbied Dorsey about an edit button at a birthday party
for her husband Kanye West.
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey has heard your requests to add an edit
button, but the CEO has some concerns about the “use cases” for
such a feature before the social media platform does anything.
As
first reported by The Next Web, Dorsey touched on the topic
while speaking at an event in India this week. Dorsey said
Twitter has been “considering” the feature for a while, but the
company wants to ensure they implement it “in the right way.”
“We can’t just rush it out,” Dorsey said at the event. “You
have to pay attention to what are the use cases for the edit
button.”
Many who are calling on Twitter to add an edit button want
an easy way to fix typos and spelling mistakes. But Dorsey
expressed concerns over users abusing such a feature by changing
the meanings of old tweets, which could have widespread
implications for anyone who retweeted or favorited the
post.
“Ultimately, we need to make sure we’re
solving a real problem and solving a use case that people are
seeing as friction within the service, and making that easy for
people to do,” Dorsey said.
Read more:
Kim Kardashian says she personally lobbied Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey for the ability to edit tweets
This is the first time that Dorsey has touched on the topic since
2016, when the CEO said on his Twitter account that the company
was “thinking a lot about it,”
Recode reported then. However nothing ever came to
fruition.
Social media has instead campaigned for the change with the
rallying cry
“tweets, but editable” that users will often add onto
typo-ridden posts they’ve already sent out. Kim Kardashian tried
her own hand at lobbying for this cause in June, when she posted
on Twitter
she had confronted Dorsey at a birthday party for her husband
Kanye West.
I had a very good convo with @jack this weekend at Kanye’s bday and I think he really heard me out on the edit button.
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) June 13, 2018
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