There is movement on the side of Twitter. The social network officially announced yesterday the arrival of Elon Musk on its board of directors. And it was Parag Agrawal, the CEO of Twitter, who took charge of this rather unexpected announcement through a tweet to which Elon Musk quickly replied.
The Tesla boss would have acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the platform’s largest shareholder. Visibly happy to be part of the Twitter adventure, Elon Musk did not cut corners and indicated that he was very eager to make significant improvements to Twitter in the months to come.
He was quick to show the world the first improvement he wanted to look at, the ability to edit tweets. He published a survey to directly ask the opinion of the users of the service as to the interest of such a function. Nearly 74% of respondents agreed with it and expressed their interest in such functionality.
But Twitter obviously didn’t wait for Elon Musk to be appointed to its board of directors to consider integrating this feature, one of the most requested improvements by users in recent years.
The social network indeed formalized the upcoming arrival of an “edit” button on its platform, a function that would be in development for more than a year. For the time being still under development, Twitter indicates that the function of editing tweets will only be tested for the moment with subscribers to its Twitter Blue offer.
Jay Sullivan, product manager at Twitter, gave more details about this editing function in a dedicated thread. He explains, among other things, that the creation of an editing function that would make it possible to correct typos in a tweet rather than deleting it and redoing it raises several questions as to its implementation and operation. The platform fears misuse of this feature if certain limits are not built in, such as limiting how long a tweet can be edited by its author.
It will probably still take a little patience before we hope to see this feature deployed on the platform. Moreover, if Twitter indicates that this edit button will be tested among Twitter Blue subscribers, the social network does not give any details on a possible deployment for all users once its development is finalized.