For so long, people have been pleading for an edit button that it’s become a running joke. “Tweets, but editable” has been the customary reaction when a popular tweet contains a typo. However, Twitter’s former CEO, Jack Dorsey, has previously expressed reservations about adding such a function. Dorsey expressed concern in 2018 that an edit button may allow users to modify the meaning of a tweet after it has been widely shared, and he stated in 2020 that Twitter would “probably never” introduce the function.
After Parag Agrawal became CEO, Twitter’s stance on an edit button appears to have evolved. Twitter’s official account stated on April 1st, the annual day of corporate deception, that it was “working on an edit button.” Although the tweet was initially misinterpreted as a joke, Twitter product head Michael Sayman later cited it as the company’s “official comment” on the feature.
