The edit button is lastly coming to Twitter — some strings hooked up.
You’ve requested for it — nay, demanded it — for the reason that day the web site launched and now you’re getting it. Properly, type of.
now that everybody is asking…
sure, we’ve been engaged on an edit characteristic since final 12 months!
no, we didn’t get the thought from a ballot 😉
we’re kicking off testing inside @TwitterBlue Labs within the coming months to study what works, what doesn’t, and what’s attainable.
— Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022
That’s proper tweet followers, you’ll want a paid month-to-month subscription to Twitter Blue in an effort to expertise the enjoyment that’s… modifying your individual tweets.
Whereas Twitter Assist may declare the edit button isn’t being applied in response to a ballot, let’s simply come proper out and say it: the edit button is being applied as a result of the corporate’s second largest shareholder held a ballot.
In any case, Twitter was not too long ago compelled to nominate Musk as a board member to maintain him from gobbling up the corporate just a few percentages at a time.
Would you like an edit button?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022
As of the time of this text’s publishing the ballot has obtained greater than 4 million votes.
And if that isn’t sufficient to persuade you that Musk’s affect is as outsized as his ego in relation to the home that Jack (Dorsey) constructed, the present CEO of Twitter, Parag Agrawal, chimed in to let everybody know that the end result of the ballot would “be essential.”
The implications of this ballot might be essential. Please vote rigorously. https://t.co/UDJIvznALB
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) April 5, 2022
So there you could have it. When you’re one of many hundreds of thousands of people that’ve been clamoring for an edit button, you may thank Elon Musk. And, in an effort to use that edit button, for now, you’ll have to specific your gratitude by forking over a month-to-month payment — one thing the shareholders will definitely recognize.
