A day after billionaire Elon Musk joins the directors’ board after buying more than 9 per cent of the shares of Twitter, the microblogging platform has said that it is testing an ‘edit’ button. Earlier, Elon Musk had sought opinions from Twitterati about an edit button on Twitter.
Twitter said it will test the feature in its paid service, Twitter Blue, in the coming months. It said the test would help it “learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible”. So it may be a while before most Twitter users get to use it, if they ever do. Twitter spokesperson Catherine Hill declined to say whether an edit feature might be rolled out for all users.
Many Twitter users – among them, Kim Kardashian, Ice T, Katy Perry and McDonald’s corporate account – have long begged for an edit button. The company itself recently teased users with an April Fool’s Day tweet saying “we are working on an edit button”. The official Twitter account said Tuesday that the April 1 tweet wasn’t a joke and that it has been working on it since last year.
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