Elon Musk pushes for Twitter edit button after becoming largest shareholder

Published April 5, 2022 12:00am ET



Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a push for a Twitter edit button a day after becoming the company’s largest stakeholder, prompting speculation about his efforts to influence Twitter’s future.

Musk posted a poll to his Twitter account Monday night asking whether users wanted an edit button, including a cheeky reference to the benefits of the feature by offering responses of “yse” or “on,” just one day after a financial filing revealed that Musk had purchased a 9.2% stake in Twitter’s future. Even Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal alluded to the power the poll’s results could have.
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