"Looking forward to working with Parag & Twitter board to make significant improvements to Twitter in coming months!" Musk said Tuesday morning on (where else?) Twitter.
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But before the news of his appointment to Twitter's board had even been announced, Musk was publicly planning the "significant improvements" he wants to bring to the service.
"Do you want an edit button?" Musk asked his 80 million-plus followers on Monday night.
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A potential edit button has been a point of contention among Twitter users for so long that it's become a kind of inside joke.
Currently, if you post a tweet with a misspelling or an incorrect link (or whatever other error you want to fix), there's no way to fix it. You can delete the tweet outright and re-post with the error removed, or you can affix an additional tweet into a thread correcting the previous error, but there's no way to simply edit the error out.
Twitter itself used the edit button as its April Fools' Day joke this year. "We are working on an edit button," the company said last week.
Twitter cofounder and former CEO Jack Dorsey told Wired in January 2020 that the service will "probably never" add edit functionality. The worry, he said, is that someone will "send a tweet, and then someone might retweet that, and then an hour later you completely change the content of that tweet."
Recently, Musk chimed into the ongoing debate around internet platforms and censorship when he tweeted last week: "Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done?"
He also polled Twitter users then if they believe Twitter supports free speech. Musk added that "the consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully." Seventy percent of respondents answered "no."
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