– Twitter is testing a button to correct its tweets
The famous social network announced on Tuesday that it was working on a button to edit a message in the event of a spelling mistake or other error.
“Since everyone is asking… Yes, we have been working on an editing feature since last year!” tweeted the communication account of the Californian company Twitter.
Since the beginnings of Twitter, its users have been calling for a tool of this type, to correct messages composed and sent too quickly.
The new button will first be tested by subscribers to Twitter Blue, a premium service that gives certain privileges for $3 per month, such as the option to un-tweet. The platform thus wants to determine “what works, what does not work and what is possible”, she specified.
Elon Musk
“No, we didn’t come up with this idea thanks to a survey,” the company also joked, referring to the new member of its board of directors, the billionaire Elon Musk, who carried out several controversial surveys on his account. Twitter.
The boss of Tesla has become the largest shareholder of Twitter by taking a 9.2% stake in the capital, announced on Monday.
“We considered the practicalities (of an edit button), but we probably never will,” Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said in an interview with Wired magazine in January 2021. He ceded the general manager position at Parag Agrawal last November.
AFP
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