While its users have always claimed this feature, Twitter is thinking about making it possible to publish its messages after publication.
What Twitter lacks is the possibility of editing messages after they are published. This is indeed the wish of the majority of social network users to the blue bird. He had previously refused to set up such a functionality, but he would finally be thinking about the matter.
Publishing messages after publication, Twitter thinks
Earlier in the week, the microblogging site consulted its users by asking them what they would like to see featured in 2017 on their favorite social network. It is the possibility to publish its tweets after publication which was the most popular.
Jack Dorsey, the current CEO of Twitter, said that the tweets edition is indeed a need and that the company thinks about it seriously. He added that if the edition were to be authorized, it would only be possible within a few minutes of publication, to correct a fault, for example. However, there is no indication that this feature will be implemented this year. Although this possibility is not complicated to implement in the social network, it nevertheless poses some problems due in particular to the functioning of the social network based on the sharing of publications and retweets.
Establishing a change history
It seems indeed difficult to manage a tweet that would have been shared hundreds of times and in the meantime modified, giving it a completely different meaning, for example. Jack Dorsey evokes in a tweet the possibility to view a history of each publication or to add the mention "modified" on the publication, as on Facebook.
Twitter must face the stagnation of the number of its members and must at all costs propose improvements to attract more users if it wants to achieve financial profitability in this year 2017. The social network is currently looking for a But the candidates do not jostle.