The Twitter platform has created a strange and strange condition in order to begin allowing people to modify their tweets. It is "when there is widespread dependence of facial masks in the world."
The micro-blogging platform, based in San Francisco, stipulated for the long-awaited feature on its official account saying: "You can get the edit button when everyone is wearing a mask."
Other social media platforms, including Facebook, have allowed people to modify what they have been posting for years, and some Twitter users feel baffled by why Twitter did not provide the same feature.
The option to edit the tweet allows users of the platform to correct the tweets if they post something and later realize that it is false, or if they simply make a typo.
In April 2013, Wired magazine published an article on the Tweet option, titled: “The only job Twitter desperately needs,” as journalist Matt Hunan argued that the job could be a decisive tool in the fight against misinformation.
"There are practical considerations that make adding the Tweet edit button difficult," said Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO, in January.
He added: “You can post a tweet and someone may retweet it. After an hour you can completely change the content of that tweet, so that the person who retweeted the original tweet now publishes something completely different, which is something you should pay attention to.”
And Dorsey said last February that the platform is considering introducing a delay period regarding sending tweets, so that the delay period may reach 30 seconds, and the Twitter user will have the ability to modify the tweet before it is published on the platform for all to see.
And Dorsey spoke in the same month about Twitter thinking about a type of feature that allows people to undo and clarify or add comments to old tweets.
It is not unusual for the platform to thrill a new feature like this one, but the Twitter account has surprised people in other ways since the outbreak.
"It is practically impossible to get everyone to wear a mask, which means we will not get the Tweet Adjustment button," said a Twitter user.