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Twitter announces a number of changes, but users just want an edit button and fewer trolls

Twitter is bringing the changes… just not the changes users want, it seems…

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Twitter announced on Wednesday that it will be rolling out a wide range of updates. Might those updates include an edit button? The ability to block trolls and propaganda bots more effectively?

Well, nope.

Amongst the changes, which one of the Twitter team shared in a Tweet, obvs, this is what users can expect to change (this is the tl/dr version).

1. breaking news at top of your timeline
2. new look for Moments w/ recaps/latest tweets/video in one spot
3. redesigned Explore organized by topic
4. personalized notifications
5. highlighted events in search

The full list of changes was published to the official Twitter blog. The social network also revealed that they’re doing something special for the 2018 World Cup.

Twitter’s World Cup plan

You can keep up with every shot, save, and goal on Twitter with our dedicated World Cup page and individual pages for every game, including scores, Tweets, videos, and Moments. You can find these pages at the top of your timeline, in search, or in Explore! Available today on Twitter for iOS and Android as well as mobile.twitter.com in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Russian, and Arabic.

But that’s not what users really want

But while these changes are nice, like a cup of tea… it’s not exactly what users have been asking for.

Most of the responses to the announced changes were pretty simple.

  1. Where is our edit button?
  2. How do we get rid of bots?
  3. How do we get rid of the trolls?

On Tweep pretty much summed it up:

Users: “we want fewer Nazis”
Twitter: “here, have more notifications”.

Yeah, as for that edit button…

Kim Kardashian is lobbying for a Twitter edit button

It wasn’t announced as being part of this round of changes, but Kim Kardashian recently claimed she might have persuaded Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to introduce an edit feature for Tweets.

“I had a very good convo with @jack this weekend at Kanye’s bday and I think he really heard me out on the edit button,” Kim Tweeted on Wednesday.

Dorsey replied:”Now I see why I was invited!”

Well, turns out he didn’t hear ya, Kim… talk a little louder next time. Or maybe Kim is confused about who is hearing who out like she was about the convo with Donald Trump, eh?