Jack Dorsey Says You Really Won't Get an Edit Tweet Button

Jack Dorsey Says You Really Won't Get an Edit Tweet Button

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https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-wont-get-edit-tweet-button/

There are some questions that Twitter just can’t shake. Whenever the company rolls out a new feature, or CEO Jack Dorsey tweets something benign (or controversial), the replies will almost certainly include the usual suspects: When will you ban the nazis? someone will inevitably ask. Why are you censoring insert group of users here? But by far the most common demand from users centers around the edit button—the nonexistent yet ever-hyped feature that would allow users to edit their tweets after sending them into the world.

It’s difficult to overstate how often Twitter top brass are pestered about this. Usually, the question is dismissed with a carefully worded non-answer, or a promise that the company is looking into it. However, in a Q&A with WIRED—during which Dorsey, among other things, reveals that the bird in Twitter’s logo was named Larry, after the former Boston Celtic Larry Bird—Dorsey was unusually direct: “The answer is no,” he says.

Jack Dorsey Says You Really Won't Get an Edit Tweet Button

Jan 16, 2020, 1:17am UTC
https://www.wired.com/story/jack-dorsey-wont-get-edit-tweet-button/ > There are some questions that Twitter just can’t shake. Whenever the company rolls out a new feature, or CEO Jack Dorsey tweets something benign (or controversial), the replies will almost certainly include the usual suspects: When will you ban the nazis? someone will inevitably ask. Why are you censoring *insert group of users here*? But by far the most common demand from users centers around the edit button—the nonexistent yet ever-hyped feature that would allow users to edit their tweets after sending them into the world. > It’s difficult to overstate how often Twitter top brass are pestered about this. Usually, the question is dismissed with a carefully worded non-answer, or a promise that the company is looking into it. However, in a Q&A with WIRED—during which Dorsey, among other things, reveals that the bird in Twitter’s logo was named Larry, after the former Boston Celtic Larry Bird—Dorsey was unusually direct: “The answer is no,” he says.