Twitter to soon let you add clarifications or annotations to old tweets


Twitter doesn’t want to embrace an ‘edit button’, though it remains one of the most requested features. The company in numerous instances in the past has slipped answering the question. However, this time, it sounds different as the company’s CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking about” some kind of feature that would let people go back to the Tweet and add clarifications or annotations to old tweets.

Jack, further said: “the other thing that we’re seeing more broadly within the culture right now in this particular moment is people quote-unquote ‘being canceled’ because of past things that they’ve said on Twitter or various other places in social media. There’s no credible way to kind of go back and clarify or even have a conversation to show the learning and the transition since.” This hints at Twitter plans to build something that would help with the errors in Tweets. While what it has in mind isn’t clear yet, but Twitter already lets people share a tweet with more context through its retweet feature. The basic idea behind this is even if

The idea here is that even if a tweet has already gone viral, the clarification will be added anywhere the original tweet appears. this feature would help in clearing up inaccurate news. Of course, Twitter would initially test the feature before it rolls out publically. This “clarification” feature could give users a chance to permanently attach a comment or annotation to the original tweet if it needs clarification.

Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO said:

How do we enable people to quickly go back or to any tweet, whether it be years back or today, and show that original tweet — kind of like a quote retweet, a retweet with comment — and to add some context and some color on what they might have tweeted or what they might have meant. By doing so you might imagine that the original tweet then would not have the sort of engagement around it. Like you wouldn’t be able to retweet the original tweet, for instance. You would just show the clarification, you would be able to retweet the clarification, so it always carries around with it that context. That’s one approach. Not saying that we are going to launch that but those are the sorts of questions we are going to ask.

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