If you've ever set a Tweet into the wild with a glaring typo, the only way to fix it is to delete the whole thing and try again. However, we may soon have the ability to simply edit the offending typo in our 140-character micro-blogs.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey asked what users would like to see from Twitter in the new year and personally responded to a few of the replies asking for an edit function.
Dorsey thinks the edit function should be for every user, and not just "those with badges," referring to users with verified accounts.
The trick to rolling out an edit function, according to Dorsey, is in implementation. Posing the question of whether to "edit mistakes quickly, or edit anytime," Dorsey briefly explained an edit-anytime function would require a change log, as Twitter is often "the public record."
Last May, Twitter made a big change by no longer counting web links toward the 140-character limit. It also expanded the limits on direct messages, from the 140 character count of the main site to a maximum of 10,000 characters.
The idea of editable tweets is still in the spitballing phase, but Dorsey's public replies on the subject point to a strong possibility we may be able to change that "they're" to "their" in our future tweets without needing to delete them first.
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