CEO Jack Dorsey asked Twitter users what improvements they most wanted to see, and as you’d expect, he got an avalanche of replies — more than 5,700 so far.
The most requested feature was the ability to edit tweets after you’ve sent them, rather than having to delete and start again. Dorsey agreed that “a form of edit is def needed,” and that the company is “thinking a lot about it.” However, he thinks anything beyond quick edits would require a changelog, and some users suggested any edits would worsen trust issues with the site.
Dorsey suggested that there are two types of edits Twitter could implement. The first would allow a window, say five minutes, to fix any typos, bad links and other user errors. The other would allow you to make edits anytime, much as you can on Facebook. However, as with Facebook, Twitter would be forced to implement a revision history in that case so that edits don’t go “off the public record,” Dorsey said.
@howardlindzon not sure why you’re quoting this tweet but yes, a form of edit is def needed. But for everyone, not just those w badges
— jack (@jack)…