Twitter CEO says users could get a feature allowing them to "clarify" their bad tweets

Even Twitter knows that its platform has something fundamentally broken. But what if users could just, uh, clarify their bad tweets? It's an idea that Twitter's CEO and witness of the goat mbadacre, Jack Dorsey, has clearly made in a speech at a Goldman Sachs event in San Francisco on Thursday.

According to Recode, Dorsey said the company was considering creating a tool to explain or develop its old tweets. Dorsey mentioned this idea after the company noticed that "people were canceled" because of their past. ve said on Twitter or other places on social networks. One of the possibilities of this feature is to minimize engagement for the tweet in question by banning retweets without the additional "clarification". This is how Dorsey said, according to Recode:

How to allow people to quickly return to a tweet, whether it's years ago or today, and show that original tweet – kind of like a retweet quote, a retweet with comment – and add context and a color to what they might have tweeted or what they might have meant. By doing so, you could imagine that the original tweet would not have the same commitment. For example, you would not be able to retweet the original tweet. You would only show the clarification, you would be able to retweet it, so that the context is always present. It's an approach. Do not say we're going to do that, but those are the kinds of questions we're going to ask.

One possible application for this feature envisaged – but not necessarily guaranteed – would be that of news. This can be useful in a situation where information is disseminated or developing, for example. But also, according to Dorsey, long-time tweets that have not aged well.

This hypothetical tool seems to be a potential alternative to a built-in modification feature in the application, whose shape Dorsey said is "is necessary" on the platform. Technically, users can already add clarifications to tweets through tweeting and chat, but the only way to actually prevent a tweet from being shared now is to delete it completely. And as Kurt Wagner of Recode noted, adding a clarification to a tweet that is already extremely silly might not do much to avoid being, as Dorsey said, "canceled."

Alternatively, however, never tweeting is always an option.