Tweeters hoping for an edit button might want to give up now, as the social network’s boss has said “we’ll probably never do it”. An edit feature has been long requested by Twitter users looking for an easier way to amend errors in their tweets, but chief executive Jack Dorsey has cast fresh doubts about it ever arriving. We wanted to preserve that vibe, that feeling, in the early days.” Jack Dorsey explained the key concern of an edit button is retweets (Matt Crossick/PA)The 43-year-old reiterated previous concerns about how an edit button would work if content is retweeted, completely changing the meaning of what was originally shared. “These are all the considerations, it’s just work, but we’ll probably never do it,” he explained. This comes after Twitter executive Kayvon Beykpour said last year that an edit feature was not “near the top of our priorities”.

Source: Irish Examiner January 15, 2020 15:33 UTC