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Twitter CEO Dorsey Says No to Edit Button

(Wired)

By    |   Thursday, 16 January 2020 09:55 PM EST

Twitter will probably not launch an edit button, says CEO Jack Dorsey.

"The reason there's no edit button [and] there hasn't been an edit button traditionally is we started as an SMS text messaging service," Dorsey said in a video posted Tuesday by Wired. "So, as you all know, when you send a text, you can't really take it back. We wanted to preserve that vibe and that feeling in the early days. But now, we have an app and a lot of people are using us on the web, and there are some issues with edit.

"One is you might send a tweet, someone might retweet that, and an hour later you completely change the content of that tweet," he added. "The person that retweeted the original tweet is now re-broadcasting something completely different. So, that's something to watch out for."

Twitter has been considering an edit button since 2013, and in 2016 Dorsey said the company was "thinking a lot" about introducing the feature.

He even said a "form of edit is def. needed."

Many users have requested the feature, including celebrity Kim Kardashian, who in 2018 said she asked Dorsey for the edit feature.

Solange Reyner

Solange Reyner is a writer and editor for Newsmax. She has more than 15 years in the journalism industry reporting and covering news, sports and politics.

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