Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest shareholder recently and has posted a poll on the website asking users if they wanted an edit button. If closely inspected, these two options are misspelled “yse” and “on,”, this did initially spark curiosity if this was something real, but after the poll was retweeted by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal saying that the consequences of this poll would be important meaning the polls would lead to the social media platform adding an edit button.

Many users have asked for an edit button over the years, but the social media network has always really stayed resistant to these requests. As we can see, co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter would probably never add an edit button on a Wired interview back in 2020, they said that Twitter would Preserve the feeling when you send a text but you cannot edit it.

But as Elon Musk has so much more authority over Twitter compared to Jack Dorsey now, it seems like Elon would be the one making decisions there from now onwards. Musk, who’s been a prolific tweeter before he purchased 9.2 percent of the social network, might catalyze for the company to change that outlook. While I’m writing this 74.7% of the nearly 1.5 million users that participated in the poll voted yes to the edit button, and if Twitter will immediately start working on this feature right now remains to be seen. They probably haven’t started developing it.

Jack Dorsey previously did say that he considered giving users a 30 to 60-minute window to correct something, which would be more than enough time to edit some spelling mistakes and other minor changes in a tweet. [In the same Wired interview]