Twitter CEO open to letting users edit Tweets
LOS ANGELES — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey signaled on Twitter Thursday that his company is going to let users edit their tweets in the future. Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking a lot about” bringing editing functionality to tweets, and then went on to say that “a form of edit” was needed.
Dorsey made these remarks as part of a kind of impromptu public town hall with Twitter users, asking them for feedback on how to improve the service. The request for an edit button for tweets came up multiple times, and Dorsey seemed to signal that the company is gearing towards a time-limited window to allow for the correction of typos right after a tweet was sent.
@AnthonyQuintano edit mistakes quickly or edit anytime? Big dif in implementation. Latter requires change log as we're oft the public record
— jack (@jack) December 29, 2016
Users also repeatedly asked Dorsey to step up Twitter’s fight against hate and harassment, which has been a major point of contention in the past. Twitter has long sided with free speech advocates, and users frequently complained that violations of the company’s terms of service weren’t being dealt with. However, this year, Twitter did boot some high-profile right-wing extremists off its platform. Dorsey said Thursday that bringing more transparency to these efforts was a “big priority” for Twitter.
Dorsey also talked about some other upcoming product changes Thursday. Some of the features he endorsed as needed included easier digestible tweet storms and better threading of conversations. Dorsey also said that the company is working on customized breaking news alerts and better direct messaging. He added that Twitter’s team had been thinking about bookmarking functionality for tweets as well.