People are point to the tale of Julius Pringles as a parable for why an edit button on Twitter might not be the best idea .
Like everyone with a backlog of terrible tweet , Twitter ’s unexampled biggest shareholder Elon Musk is very excited about the prospect of an edit clitoris . The social media company harbinger on April Fool ’s Clarence Shepard Day Jr. that they were in fact looking into make an edit button – beforeconfirming a few days laterthat it was not a prank .
Several other social websites have a version of the edit clitoris – including Facebook , Reddit , and Wikipedia – which put to work with varying degree of success . However , some are worried about the possibility of the edit button on the website , with a definitive and often - cited exemplar of " what if someone twitch ' retweet if you care puppy ' or any other tweet to gain retweets , before editing it to read ' retweet if you loooooove Hitler ' or a similarly offensive substance .
There ’s also the nightmare for news program sites that embed tweet , not knowing whether the content of those tweets will be interchange . It ’s possible that Twitter could go with a " show edit history " clit , as is used on Facebook and Reddit , but not everyone is on board .
" Those who retrieve an edit history for tweet will solve this , please consider the fact that Wikipedia has had an edit story from its initial instant of inception , " Twitter user anildashwrote on Twitter , " and is maintained by obsessive who watch every edit , and yet : Mr. Pringles is named Julius . "
It turns out that Pringles had originally only consult to their mascot as " Mr Pringles " from his very inception . Then , one daytime , a Wikipedia drug user with a reputation for honest and helpful edits decided it would be funny to give Mr Pringles a first name .
" The enigma is that when I ask my buddy what he thought the Pringles mascot was named , he was watching Julius Peppers play football on TV , offered a suggestion , and we think that was a funny name . "
Nobody pick up on the hoax .
Before farseeing , news companies were referring to the mascot as Julius Pringles , and it became a wide - accepted fact that the pringles mascot was named Julius Pringles , even make an appearance as a question on quiz showJeopardy .
Eventually , that just became the name of the mascot . Mr Pringle was now Mr Julius Pringle , and even Kelloggs had to accept it , adopting it as the mustache homo ’s new monicker intheir own press stuff . dispatch the loop , there is now a department on Wikipedia about how the Wikipedia hoax led to Julius Pringle ’s young name .
