Twitter’s message “we are working on an edit button” was liked more than 970,000 times and retweeted 90,000 times within 13 hours of being sent but not before users checked the date and remembered that April 1 was the original platform for fake news.

When asked about the seriousness of the statement, Twitter told Newsweek in a statement “we cannot confirm or deny but we may edit our statement later.”

While still an ambiguous answer, some were unimpressed at Twitter’s announcement. The verified account of Dictionary.com shared the April 1 post with a link to the “definition of unfunny”.

Actor and author Joey Zieja tweeted: “April fools jokes where you announce something incredible that will bring people happiness and then are like ‘Hahaha no sorry the world is still actually joyless’ are tired and please stop.”

Meanwhile, Telegram Messenger was suspicious of the move, posting, “Let’s see what they say tomorrow.”

“Joke’s on you, @Twitter. You now owe Australians an edit button,” was one user’s reaction to the tweet which had gone out on April 2 in a different time zone.

The ability to iron out typos via an edit function is something that many Twitter users have asked Twitter to implement since its launch in 2006.

In 2019, Twitter’s product lead Kayvon Beykpour said that it was a feature “I think we should build at some point, but it’s not anywhere near the top of our priorities.”

However, in January 2020, Twitter co-founder and now ex-CEO Jack Dorsey told Wired that Twitter would “probably never” introduce an edit button. He said that Twitter started as a text message service and that “when you send a text, you can’t really take it back,” adding, “we wanted to preserve that vibe.”

Opponents of the move argue an edit feature would kill the immediacy of the platform, as outlined by a post in the thread under Twitter’s statement on Friday by user Daniel Regha.

“It will cause complete chaos which in turn will ruin the platform,” he wrote, “Twitter thrives on raw tweets, editing a tweet will affect the quoted retweets, replies & shared articles contextually. An edit button is a no-no.”

Update 04/02/22, 6:30 a.m. ET: This article has been updated with a statement to Newsweek from Twitter.