Twitter Could Finally Get ‘Edit Tweet’ Feature, Says Jack Dorsey
The edit feature is likely to be active for a few seconds and should be available sometime this year.
Micro-blogging site Twitter is considering the possibility of adding support for editing tweets, but the original version of the tweet would still be viewable.
"Maybe we can introduce a 5-30 seconds delay in the sending of a tweet and within that window, you can edit because the issue with going longer than that is it takes that real-time nature of the conversational flow out of it," 9To5Mac quoted Twitter chief executive officer (CEO) Jack Dorsey as saying in a podcast interview on Saturday.
On why the micro-blogging site lacks the feature, Dorsey said the platform was built on the SMS format of text messaging.
"Once you send a text, you can't take it back. When you send a tweet, it goes to the world instantaneously. You can't take it back."
Dorsey first addressed the possibility of adding an edit feature for tweets in December 2016, based on the Twitteratis' suggestions.
Back in 2018, while visiting India for Twitter's pre-election campaign, Dorsey was quizzed as to why Twitter does not have an edit button.
To which he said, "the reason Twitter does not have an ‘edit’ button is because people may change their opinions by editing the original tweet and then people who don’t agree with the original view, may have already retweeted the tweet, which is not an accurate representation of what they believe."
Twitter was recently testing a new feature on Android that puts news stories at the top of the timeline to help users keep up with what is happening around the world.
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