LOS ANGELES - Twitter users have long asked for the ability to edit their tweets, and now the company has offered to provide one — but there are strings attached.
In an interview with Wired in January, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said “the reason there's no edit button [and] there hasn't been an edit button traditionally is we started as an SMS text messaging service.”RELATED: Planning to fly this summer?
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We wanted to preserve that vibe and that feeling in the early days," explained Dorsey. But on Thursday, the social media giant tweeted a promise to its users that the ability to edit their 280.