Twitter will roll out long-awaited edit button to paid subscribers

By Sheila Dang

-Twitter Inc will launch a broadly requested edit button for its paid subscribers within the coming weeks, the social media firm stated Thursday.

For years, Twitter customers have demanded the power to edit their tweets after publishing to be able to repair errors like typos. These requests have led to jokes on-line that Twitter would fairly introduce another product, similar to newsletters, earlier than giving customers their top-requested characteristic.

Subscribers who pay $4.99 per thirty days for Twitter Blue will quickly have the ability to edit their tweets “just a few occasions” inside half-hour of publication, Twitter stated in a weblog put up.

Almost each different social media platform, together with Meta Platform’s Fb and Instagram, Reddit and Pinterest, have for years supplied options permitting customers to edit posts.

The San Francisco-based firm is embroiled in a authorized combat with billionaire Elon Musk, who's making an attempt to again out of a $44-billion settlement to purchase Twitter.

In April, on the identical day that Musk disclosed a 9% stake in Twitter, he tweeted a ballot asking his hundreds of thousands of followers whether or not they needed an edit button. Over 70% stated sure.

Twitter and its observers have debated whether or not permitting tweets to be edited might result in dangerous results, such because the unfold of misinformation.

Edited tweets may have an icon and timestamp to show when the put up was final edited. Customers will have the ability to click on on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit historical past and former variations of the put up.

Twitter has experimented with variations of an edit button. Subscribers of Twitter Blue, the corporate’s paid subscription product, at the moment have entry to a characteristic that holds tweets for as much as one minute, permitting customers to assessment the tweet and “undo” it earlier than the put up is printed.

Requested if the edit button would ultimately be accessible for all Twitter customers, a spokeswoman stated Twitter was testing the characteristic to “anticipate what would possibly occur if we carry it to everybody.”