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.
This may be a detail for you, but for Twitter users it matters a lot: the famous social network announced on Tuesday April 5 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’ve been working on an editing feature since last year!” tweeted the communication account of the Californian company.
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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 wants to determine “what works, what does not work and what is possible”she clarified.
“No, we did not come up with this idea thanks to a survey”, also joked the company, in reference to the new member of its board of directors, the billionaire Elon Musk, who carried out several controversial polls on his Twitter account. The boss of Tesla has become the largest shareholder of Twitter by taking a 9.2% stake in the capital, announced on Monday.
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“We considered the practical aspects (of an edit button), but we probably never will”said Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, in an interview with the magazine Wired in January 2021. He handed over the CEO spot to Parag Agrawal last November.