Twitter assessments out edit button, says work started earlier than Musk ballot

Twitter Inc. stated it’s beginning inside testing of an edit button, and that work on the function started final yr — earlier than new high shareholder and board member Elon Musk polled customers on the subject.

The means to edit tweets after posting them has been the most-requested function for a few years, Jay Sullivan, Twitter’s head of shopper product, wrote in a thread elaborating on the corporate’s announcement. Roughly 74% of the greater than 4.4 million votes forged in Musk’s ballot this week had been in favor of including the performance.

Musk, 50, began the ballot after disclosing Monday that he’d taken a greater than 9% stake in Twitter. He filed a brand new type with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday classifying himself as an lively investor, a day after he was late submitting a type for passive shareholders. Twitter agreed on Monday so as to add Musk to its board.

Twitter posted a GIF on Tuesday hinting at how the edit function would work. Sullivan, the buyer product chief, stated the corporate would search “enter and adversarial considering” earlier than launching the performance.

“Without issues like cut-off dates, controls, and transparency about what has been edited, Edit might be misused to change the report of the general public dialog,” he wrote. “Protecting the integrity of that public conversation is our top priority when we approach this work.”

Twitter shares fell as a lot as 2.6% to $49.66 earlier than the beginning of normal buying and selling Wednesday. The inventory has soared 30% since Musk disclosed his funding, the largest two-day acquire for the reason that firm’s 2013 preliminary public providing.

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