On September 01, Twitter announced that it has initiated testing the feature in the coming days. However, the feature will be accessed by only subscribers of Twitter Blue, the premium service of the company, which costs $4.99 per month.
Earlier in April, the company confirmed that it had started working on adding the feature in 2021. It can be assumed that this step is the outcome of Elon Musk’s push on the idea among his followers.
How It Would Work
Subscribers of Twitter Blue will now edit a tweet limited times within 30 minutes of posting. They will see an icon, and timestamp along with a label on tweets, which will indicate to readers that the original tweet has been tweaked. Moreover, readers will be able to see the edit history by tapping on the tweet label.
Jay Sullivan, the general manager of the micro-blogging site’s consumer and revenue product shared the information by tweeting on Thursday that the company will first offer the facility to Twitter Blue subscribers as it is designed to test features with these users’ early access.
Concern Over the Feature
Back in 2020, during an interview with Wired, Jack Dorsey, the then CEO of Twitter stated that the company would possibly ‘never’ consider adding the ‘edit tweet’ feature.’ The reason he gave behind his thought is that it could support spreading misinformation.
According to some technology experts, an ‘edit tweet’ feature would be used for altering statements even after retweeting or endorsing the former statement by others.
Needless to say that an edit button on Twitter is the most-asked-for-feature for several years. Now, when the company has finally decided to include the feature, it has become a kind of inside joke for Jack Dorsey’s comment.
After Parag Agrawal replaced Jack Dorsey for the post of Twitter’s CEO, the company adopted the idea of testing this edit button feature on the tweet.
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