Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explains how tweeting can work

This is a question that keeps coming back to Jack Dorsey.

In an interview with Joe Rogan this weekend, the CEO of Twitter explained how editable tweets, a feature often requested, would work on the platform.

"You can build it as such, so maybe we could introduce a delay of 5 to 30 seconds in the shipment," Dorsey told the program.

"And in this window, you can edit." The problem with lengthening the duration is that it takes that real-time nature of the conversational flow. "

Dorsey also revealed that Twitter was trying to ensure that users could see the original tweet.

Although the ability to edit tweets is a regularly requested feature, it is understood that the platform has become the social media of reference, so the change can not simply be made on the fly.

For this reason, Dorsey plans to make the possibility of modification dependent on the context.

"If you're in the context of an NBA game, you want to be quick and you just want to be in the present moment, you want to be raw," he said.

"But if you're considering what the president just did or make a statement, you probably need more time and we can be dynamic there."

The Twitter feature is based on SMS, and Dorsey explained that it was the reason why the company had not incorporated any editing function into the platform.

"Once you send an SMS, you can not retrieve it, so when you send a tweet, it's instantly transmitted to the world – you can not recover it," he said.

But of course, this did not stop Twitter from increasing the number of characters on its tweets – like SMS, tweets were limited to 140 characters, and then doubled to 280 by the end of 2017.

So, with Rogan, Kim Kardashian, devil, the whole Twittersphere asks the question, it's probably only a matter of time before you can edit a tweet. Surely.