Twitter is finally adding support for a feature that request by users for many years, the ability to edit tweets. As Twitter announced that it will roll out the much-awaited edit button to select Twitter Blue subscribers over the coming weeks.
This feature will allow users to make changes to tweets for up to half an hour after they are post, and an edited tweet will display indicators to reveal that the tweet has edit.
Users will also be able to see the original tweet with subsequent changes, as per Twitter.
As per the Twitter, the edit button is currently being test internally and will be roll out to Twitter Blue users over the coming weeks.
Twitter says that the feature will be test in a single country before it is expand to other regions.
Twitter Blue is the company’s premium subscription service that provides users with additional functionality and access to upcoming features before other users.
The edit button will allow users to make changes to their tweets within a 30-minute period.
The brief window will allow users to quickly fix or add missing hashtags, as per the Twitter.
Edited tweets will be clearly mark with an icon, a timestamp, and a label, as per the Twitter.
When a user taps the label, they will be shown the tweet’s edit history, which includes past changes and the original tweet.
Twitter says the version history and 30-minute window to edit tweets is important to protect the integrity of conversations and maintain a public record of statements on the platform.
Twitter users have been asking for the ability to edit tweets for years, and Twitter reveal in April that it was planning to add support for an edit button.
This service says that it is intentionally testing the feature with a smaller group of people to better understand how the feature could be misuse and resolve potential issues.
Twitter Said :
“We’ll also be paying close attention to how the feature impacts the way people read, write, and engage with Tweets,”.
The edit button joins Twitter Blue’s other related feature, the ‘undo’ button that lets users cancel sending a tweet up to thirty seconds after hitting the send button.
Twitter Blue is the platform’s premium subscription service available in select markets like the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
Adding an edit button should serve as a much-need boost to the subscription service amidst declining share prices and profitability.
And Twitter users in India may have to wait before they gain access to the edit button.
Twitter has still not announce any plans to launch the subscription service in India, and it remains to be seen if the edit button will get a wider platform-wide rollout.
