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The Twitter Fix You Have All Been Waiting for Could Be Near!

How many times has it happened to you? You send out a tweet only to realize you have spelled something incorrectly. You have to delete it and resend it. Those…

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How many times has it happened to you? You send out a tweet only to realize you have spelled something incorrectly. You have to delete it and resend it. Those days could soon be over. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is talking about building an "edit button" for tweets. Speaking at an event in India, Dorsey addressed the usage of such a button. “You have to pay attention to what are the use cases for the edit button. A lot of people want the edit button because they want to quickly fix a mistake they made. Like a misspelling or tweeting the wrong URL. That’s a lot more achievable than allowing people to edit any tweet all the way back in time,” Dorsey said. How do you merely allow a fix to spelling or grammar without allowing somebody to change a tweet that they may regret?