Discussion

• @paraga Parag Agrawal on x

  The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  Do you want an edit button?

• @twittercomms @twittercomms on x

  👀 https://twitter.com/...

• @jaysullivan Jay Sullivan on x

  1/ We've been exploring how to build an Edit feature in a safe manner since last year and plan to begin testing it within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months. Sharing a few more insights on how we're thinking about Edit 🧵 https://twitter.com/...

• @michaelsayman Michael Sayman on x

  hi hi - I'm a product lead at Twitter looking for input from all kinds of sources, but also directly from the community itself. I wanna know: What's the one feature you wished Twitter had?

• @alexstamos Alex Stamos on x

  A lot of people are underestimating the abuse potential of an edit button. Recently looked at a massive cryptocurrency scam that was supported by automated editing of a verified FB page's posts to create a legit-looking brokerage. The abuse state diagram here is massive.

• @boztank @boztank on x

  @Liz_Wheeler @elonmusk We solved this on Facebook a long time ago. You just include an indicator that it has been edited along with a change log. If you are really worried about embeds they can point to a specific revision in that history but with a link to the latest edit. Not a…

• @jaysullivan Jay Sullivan on x

  3/ 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. Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.

• @bopinion @bopinion on x

  .@matt_levine's take on the edit button is the only thing you need to read: https://www.bloomberg.com/... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @twittercomms @twittercomms on x

  ps: we weren't joking https://twitter.com/...

• @mikeisaac @mikeisaac on x

  i know it's kind of like an in-joke about adding an edit feature but i genuinely cannot imagine how this would work unless it functioned like gmail's “undo send” feature and that basically means not sending the message for a few seconds in case you change your mind

• @erdayastronaut @erdayastronaut on x

  @elonmusk Under two conditions. It's only available for a few minutes, 5-10 mins. And when an edit is made, there's a small link that shows the edit. This keeps a public record but allows the tweeter the ability to fix a simple mistake and not re-notify their followers with a new…

• @allanbell247 Allan Bell on x

  You're gonna quote tweet someone saying how good orange juice is for them to change it three years later to you agreeing about stalin lol. This is a horrible idea. https://twitter.com/...

• @adamliaw Adam Liaw on x

  There is absolutely no need whatsoever for an edit button on Twitter, and anyone who believes otherwise is vastly overestimating the value of their own tweets. https://twitter.com/...

• @elonmusk Elon Musk on x

  @boztank @Liz_Wheeler Facebook gives me the willies

• @liz_wheeler Liz Wheeler on x

  @elonmusk Here's my argument against an edit button: What if a tweet goes viral, lots of retweets & millions of impressions, & then the author completely changes the meaning? Not just a grammatical fix, but a TOTAL ideological change? Or shameless self-promote?

• @yashar Yashar Ali on x

  This isn't direct at Jane...but I truly don't understand why it's so painful for people to delete a tweet and tweet it again! https://twitter.com/...

• @royjsnell Roy Snell on x

  Twitter begins in 2006. In 2021 Twitter people finally figure out a text editor would be helpful. 15 years to figure out what every other tool that uses words already has? Now its taken them 12 months to write a feature that any talented programmer could write in a few months. ht…

• @kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x

  Edit button coming to Twitter hope everyone is happy https://twitter.com/...

• @cari_luna Cari Luna on x

  Unlike everything else on this cursed website, I'm sure everyone will use the edit function in good faith and it absolutely won't be weaponized in any way. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @stonekettle @stonekettle on x

  Caution: Extremely high concentration of weasel words. A thread from the head of Twitter Product Development https://twitter.com/...

• @amy_siskind @amy_siskind on x

  Twitter is giving Elon Musk a board seat. No good will come of this. Hoping entrepreneurs are dreaming up new alternatives to Twitter and Facebook.

• @slowbeef @slowbeef on x

  TwitterBlue labs So Edit will be a paid feature? https://twitter.com/...

• @hnshah @hnshah on x

  The timing of this announcement makes @elonmusk the best product manager in the world. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexhern Alex Hern on x

  “if we had an edit button people would be able to correct falsehoods in viral tweets” is such nonsense, as though anyone on twitter has ever wanted to correct falsehoods in their viral tweets

• @mkbhd Marques Brownlee on x

  You'd think I make typos on purpose to make a case for the edit button. Nope. I really just need the button.

• @richontech Rich DeMuro on x

  Say what you will about Elon Musk. The guy gets things done.

• @benadida Ben Adida on x

  Puts me a good bit more at ease to see that @jaysullivan (Mozilla fist bump) is deeply involved in thinking about tweet editing, and to see that abuse potential is top of concern list. https://t.co/JCisjREjC5

• @majorphilebrity Phillip on x

  And what happens when someone changes their very viral tweet to something racist or objectionable? When companies start paying people to edit them into ads? When stan accounts start using it for whatever terrible thing they can think of? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.co…

• @loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x

  Too many people asking if Twitter announced the edit button because of Elon's poll, not enough people asking if Elon was told about the edit button weeks prior and decided to tweet it as a poll for personal clout and the ability to be seen as someone who can now implement change.…

• @moskov Dustin Moskovitz on x

  I... worked on this campaign for two entire days ...and... they just... they tweeted it out https://twitter.com/...

• @redsteeze Stephen L. Miller on x

  This is such a bad idea https://twitter.com/...

• @ashleyesqueda Ashley on x

  If @twitter wants to make an edit button: - It should have a fixed timer of availability - If that timer is more than 5 minutes, any edit should immediately reset favorites/RTs to 0 and as if it is a new tweet https://twitter.com/...

• @jchensor James Chen on x

  The history of every version of the Tweet must be saved AND linked to from the edited Tweet. “This Tweet has been edited” must be displayed with the word “edited” as a link to the chain of every previous version. You can only delete the ENTIRE chain including current version. htt…

• @1djfirstclass @1djfirstclass on x

  So Y'all Basically Just Subscribed To Twitter Blue Just For Them To Make The Feature Free 😂😂 https://twitter.com/...

• @harrymccracken Harry McCracken on x

  At this point, I reserve the right not to believe it's real even if it's real. https://twitter.com/...

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  Really excited about the edit button. I have a lot of tweets about inflation from last year I need to tweak

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  🚨 Twitter to start testing an edit tweet button No this is not a joke https://twitter.com/...

• @taylorlorenz Taylor Lorenz on x

  New era approaching https://twitter.com/...

• @alanaevansxxx Alana Evans on x

  My $2.99 spent on twitter blue is instantly worth more than the 6.50 I pay for a gallon of gas https://twitter.com/...

• @stammy @stammy on x

  feels like everyone the last few days thinks they're an expert in what an edit button for twitter should look like and how it should work “just make it time-limited” “show version history” “facebook does it!”

• @brianmcc Brian McCullough on x

  I mean, no shit. SOMEONE at Twitter has been working on an edit button since, what, when was it founded? Doesn't mean anything until now... https://www.techmeme.com/...

• @markgurman Mark Gurman on x

  Didn't get the idea from a poll, yet it was announced 24 hours after said poll. No way this was related! https://twitter.com/...

• @elliothackney Elliot Hackney on x

  People who ask for an edit button on Twitter: https://twitter.com/...

• @genepark Gene Park on x

  can't wait to see what new horrors this will unleash https://twitter.com/...

• @artemr @artemr on x

  ‼‼‼‼ ‼‼‼‼‼ ; ‼ ‼ The Twitter Edit Button ‼ ‼‼‼‼ ‼‼‼‼‼ ; ‼ https://twitter.com/...

• @benadida Ben Adida on x

  Well, I was quite wrong thinking they wouldn't do this. Still seems like a bad idea, but looks they're first running limited experiments, so that's great. Maybe I'll be wrong about this being a bad idea! Still, typos vs. abuse... If there's even a mild tradeoff, I'll take typos. …

• @carnage4life @carnage4life on x

  I learned early in my career that sometimes the obvious thing to do is the right thing to do even if it feels off strategy. Twitter giving users an edit button even if it violates both philosophical and technical (i.e. caching assumptions) principles of the team is an example.

• @srirachachau Mr. Chau on x

  Edit button would cause total chaos but also anyone that wants one is weak as hell. Delete and rewrite or live with the typo!

• @pmarca Marc Andreessen on x

  The main use of the Edit button is to bring your old tweets into compliance with the current thing.

• @dcseifert Dan Seifert on x

  forcing you to pay to be able to edit something is an idea Twitter got from Microsoft https://twitter.com/...

• @_zeets @_zeets on x

  Asking for an edit button has been such a silly performance considering that you can quickly delete and repost a tweet, and that the people who really care about typos are really just the author and a few random nerds who think calling out typos is a personality

• @paulg Paul Graham on x

  Suddenly Twitter is interested in users' opinions. What a coincidence. https://twitter.com/...