Twitter to soon let you add clarifications or annotations to old tweets

Twitter doesn't want to embrace an 'edit button', though it remains one of the most requested features. The company in numerous instances in the past has slipped answering the question. However, this time, it sounds different as the company's CEO Jack Dorsey said that Twitter is “thinking about” some kind of feature that would let people go back to the Tweet and add clarifications or annotations to old tweets. Jack, further said: “the other thing that we’re seeing more broadly within the culture right now in this particular moment is people quote-unquote ‘being canceled’ because of past things that they’ve said on Twitter or various other places in social media. There’s no credible way to kind of go back and clarify or even have a conversation to show the learning and the transition since.” This hints at Twitter plans to build something that would help with the errors in Tweets. While what it has in mind isn't clear yet, but Twitter already lets people share a tweet with more context through its retweet feature. The basic idea behind this is even if The idea here is that even if a tweet has already gone viral, the clarification will be added anywhere the original tweet appears. ...