Twitter on Tuesday announced its plan to start testing an Edit feature in the coming months at twitter Blue. This comes after a newly named board member Elon Musk conducted an online poll asking users whether they needed an Edit Button.
According to Twitter, many users complained of being unable to edit mistakes in a post, forcing them to delete it and post again.
“People want to be able to fix (sometimes embarrassing) mistakes, typos, and hot take at the moment. They currently work around this by deleting and tweeting again,” Jay Sullivan, the company’s head of consumer product, said in a tweet thread.
Twitter said it would kick off testing in the coming months to figure out what works when letting users edit their posts after they have gone live.
“Now that everyone is asking… yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year! No, we didn’t get the idea from a poll. In the coming months, we’re kicking off testing within Twitter Blue Labs to learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible,” Twitter said in its comms account.
Twitter Blue lets people pay a monthly subscription fee of $3 to access special content or features. According to the company, Blue is available on the Twitter application for Apple or Android smartphones in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.
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Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who stepped down as CEO last year, had long opposed an “edit” button on the basis that users could change a tweet that had already been widely shared, changing its meaning or context.
Some users also raised these concerns, suggesting edit limits for the posts to save people who retweet from trouble for retweeting things that somebody changed.
Jay Sullivan, the company’s head of consumer products, addressed those concerns in his posts.
“Without things like time limits, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit could be misused to alter the record of the public conversation,” he said
Sullivan said that it would take time, and the company will be actively seeking input and adversarial thinking in advance of launching “Edit.” He added that the company is working to give people more choice and control over their Twitter experience, foster a healthy conversation, and help people be more comfortable on Twitter.