It is finally happening.
The social media giant announced Tuesday that it is actually working on an edit button that it plans to start testing in the coming months.
The company wrote that they have been working on an edit feature since last year.
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The poll that was run by Musk was to ask users if they wanted an edit button on the platform.
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It has long been opposed to allowing users to modify their accounts after they go live. The logic that Jack Dorsey explained in 2020 still makes sense.
He said in an interview with Wired that someone who re-posted the original version of a message is now re-posting something completely different.
We asked if it was no longer concerned about the scenario that was described. A company spokesman said that there was nothing else to say at this time, but pointed us to an April 5 thread from Jay Sullivan, the head of consumer product, who admitted that this could all go terribly wrong.
Sullivan wrote that protecting the integrity of the public conversation is their top priority.
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The top brass at the micro-messaging service decided to try and throw a giant edit-button wrench in the machine now that Dorsey is out.
Good luck with that.
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