Twitter can't afford any mistakes in introducing its button to edit tweets

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While editing tweets seems like a simple feature at first glance, Twitter will have to tread carefully when implementing it, since any mistake could seriously damage the social network's reputation.

Ideally, users would have only a limited amount of time to edit their tweets after they have been published. For example, it would be seriously counterproductive if a tweet were modified by namibia phone number data its author to express something completely different after the message in question had accumulated thousands of tweets and gone viral.

In the age of misinformation, Twitter should not turn its long-awaited edit button into another tool to fuel “fake news.” The introduction of this button is by no means trivial and potentially puts the social network in quite a bind, so it is important that its new functionality leaves no stone unturned.

The edit button will land on Twitter just a few months after Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of the social network, left the company's leadership. Dorsey has always been radically opposed to the introduction of this function. And in January 2020 he went so far as to say that "we will probably never do it ." At the head of Twitter is currently Parag Agrawal, who clearly has a totally opposite point of view to that of his predecessor.

In the debate over the much-vaunted Twitter edit button, it is impossible to avoid the figure of Elon Musk, who this week acquired 9.2% of the social network. Musk had shown himself to be in favour of the introduction of an edit button on more than one occasion and this week he actually carried out a survey among his followers to determine whether or not they wanted such a button . It seems, however, that Twitter's board of directors has anticipated Musk's wishes and he has not had to pressure its members to force the introduction of the edit button on the social network.