This is what everyone expected: Elon Musk hints at changes in Twitter, the shares of which he recently bought
In March, Elon Musk asked if the world needed a new social network that would adhere more closely to the principles of democracy. However, he was advised to buy Twitter. He bought it. And now hints at change.
Apparently, the acquired stake in the company that made Maska its largest shareholder gives the right to vote in the decision-making process on the social network. Therefore, the billionaire, without betraying the traditions, asked his 80 million audience opinion about the most desirable feature, which is still not on Twitter.
Twitter and what awaits him
Do you want an edit button?
At the same time, the new shareholder specifically made errors in the answer options, writing “yse” instead of “yes” and “on” instead of “no”, hinting at the main purpose of this function – to correct errors found in already sent tweets.
Note that at the time of writing, there are 15 hours until the end of voting. However, 'yse' has already taken the lead, receiving more than 73 percent of the audience's vote, which means that people want to get editing.
Commenting on the message, Mask had an interesting conversation with The Liz Wheeler Show host Liz Wheeler and one of the directors of Meta, who is currently working on virtual and augmented reality, Andrew Bosworth.
Here's my argument against an edit button: What if a tweet goes viral, lots of retweets & millions of impressions, & then the author completely changes the meaning? Not just a grammatical fix, but a TOTAL ideological change? Or shameless self-promote?
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) April 5, 2022
Facebook gives me the willies
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022
Of course, the mere existence of such a poll does not necessarily mean that the editing function will be introduced, but there have been cases when Musk listened to the opinion of the audience. However, he is not the sole shareholder of the company and cannot make decisions alone. Earlier, the management of the social network refused to introduce such an option, citing possible unfair use.
