Twitter is working on a new button that will allow you to edit tweet for half an hour after publication, but only users who pay to use the platform will have access to it. The new feature will begin testing in late September with users of Blue, the subscription service that Twitter launched in 2021 and is only available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The information was announced by the Twitter team on Thursday. “If you see a button that says ‘Edited Tweet’, we’re testing a new edit button,” reads a brief Publication of Twitter on the platform. “Edited Tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp and tag to make it clear to readers that the original Tweet was edited.”
The feature is expected to attract more users to the Twitter subscription program, which allows browsing the application without advertising and gives access to certain tools prime (e.g. thematic tabs and a tweet reader). It costs $4.99 per month (about five euros at the current exchange rate).
Twitter has long considered including an edit button. Platform founder Jack Dorsey has always been against functionality. “We’ll probably never have an edit button,” he said in an interview with tech magazine. wired, in 2020, while he was still the platform’s executive chairman. “We started as a kind of SMS, a text messaging service. And as everyone knows, when you send an SMS, you cannot ask for the message in return“, he justified.
For months, Twitter Blue users have had a button to undo a Tweeter before being officially dispatched. The goal is to fix errors that are detected right after users hit submit.
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