Just yesterday, it was announced that Elon Musk had reached an important 9.2% of Twitter’s total shares, becoming the company’s majority shareholder. And it is because, if something is clear to us in recent years, that the eccentric billionaire loves this social network, because it was one of his main means of communication both for his personal thoughts and for some advertisements for his companies.
So while Elon still doesn’t control Twitter, he’s become quite important. So much so that he decided to take the first step by publishing a survey asking users if they want the social network to include an edit button. A report published with Muska’s characteristic confidence, with some options in which we can choose between “yse” and “he”, which many initially considered a joke, but were later commented on by Parag Agrawal, CEO of Twitter, along with the following report: «The implications of this survey will be important. vote carefully«.
As expected at the moment Yes seems to be spreading by force and amassing more than 70% of the more than 2,150,000 votes. And it’s because it’s actually a feature that users have been asking for since the release of the social network.
However, it should be noted that it is a two-edged sword. Although, on the one hand, this feature would be intended for users to correct some errors in their current and past publications, it opens the door to a complete change of messages and allows a new “fraudulent” tool that can be used to highlight certain messages different from the originals after the accumulation of a large number of likes or Retweets. That is, we hope that Twitter includes some type of limitation of this edition, possibly setting a maximum number of characters that can be edited, even if it shows up time.