No matter how many times you shake that Magic 8-Ball asking whether Twitter will introduce an edit button, the outlook is always “not so good.”
In a Wired “Tech Support” video (below), Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey answers frequently asked questions about the social network—including the popular “Can we please have an edit button?”
Well? Can we?
“The answer is no,” Dorsey deadpanned directly to camera.
Twitter launched in 2006 as an SMS text messaging service. And, as anyone who’s ever used a phone knows: once you send a text, there’s no taking it back.
“We wanted to preserve that vibe and that feeling in the early days,” Dorsey explained.
But no one tweets using Short Message Service anymore, and web and app users yearn for the ability to revise their 280-character commentary—whether to fix a spelling mistake or mend a broken link.
There are, however, fundamental issues with making amendments to published posts, according to Dorsey.
“You might send a tweet and then someone might retweet that and then an hour later you completely change the content of that tweet, and that person who retweeted the original tweet is now retweeting and rebroadcasting something completely different,” he said.
The company has considered a workaround: In an interview last year with Joe Rogan, Dorsey addressed the possibility of a short window during which users can refine their message before unveiling it to the world.
He has teased anything from a 5-second to one-minute lag in sending, allowing folks a few moments to annotate.
“But that also means that we have to delay sending that tweet out,” Dorsey said. “Because once it’s out, people see it.
“So, there are all the considerations, he continued, adding that “we’ll probably never do it.”
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