Becoming Twitter's Largest Shareholder, Elon Musk Creates A Poll About Edit Features, Agrawal Asks Netizens To Be Careful

JAKARTA – After successfully becoming the majority shareholder in Twitter Inc., Elon Musk seems to want to make an update on the microblogging application. The richest man in the world, Monday, March 4, made a Twitter poll that was considered horrendous.

The Tesla Inc boss posted a Twitter poll on Monday asking users if they wanted an edit button on Twitter.

The poll comes after Musk disclosed a 9.2% stake in Twitter earlier in the day, worth nearly $3 billion, making him the micro-blogging site's biggest shareholder.

Do you want an edit button?

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 5, 2022

"Would you like an edit button?" Musk asked in a tweet.

Replying to Musk's poll, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal also tweeted that the consequences of the poll would be important. "Please choose carefully," he said.

On April 1, Twitter had tweeted a message on its official account, saying that they were working on the long-awaited "edit" feature. When asked if the tweet was a joke, the company later said, "We can neither confirm nor deny but we can edit our statement later."

Musk himself has been known as a figure who continues to criticize Twitter as a social media platform that is not friendly to "edit". This is considered to cause problems if mistakes made accidentally while writing on twitter can lead to different perceptions.

In a poll conducted by Musk himself, as of Tuesday, March 5, Indonesian time, in just 3 hours, there were 74.6 percent of twitter users who agreed with the edit button. While 25.4 refused. As of Tuesday afternoon, the number of accounts participating in the poll has reached 1,556,814 accounts. This poll will close after 24 hours.