Twitter began testing an edit button, but it costs money
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The much-desired Edit Tweet tool is currently being tested on Twitter. Later this month, some Twitter Blue subscribers will be able to edit tweets after years of memes and jokes. Currently under "internal testing," the functionality resembles Facebook in how it edits, and it includes a linked edit history for tweets, which we first saw in leaks earlier this year.
In the 30 minutes after they are published, tweets will be able to be altered a few times, according to a blog post on the Twitter website. To make it evident to readers that the original Tweet has been amended, edited Tweets will include an icon, timestamp, and label.
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A complete edit history with previous iterations of the changed tweet will be included in the edit label. According to Twitter, it is testing editable tweets with a small group at first to identify any potential problems. "This includes potential misuse of the service by users. You can never be too cautious, Twitter advises.
Later this month, after the initial round of internal testing is completed, the Edit Tweet capability will be made available to some Twitter Blue subscribers. According to Twitter, "the test will first be confined to a single nation and extended as we learn and watch how people use Edit Tweet."
Editing a tweet has been "the most requested Twitter feature for many years," according to Jay Sullivan, Twitter's VP of consumer products, who made this statement earlier this year. Despite the tremendous demand, there have been worries about abuse. A capability to edit tweets was opposed by Twitter's former CEO, Jack Dorsey, who claimed in 2020 that the feature would "probably never" be included.
There aren't many well-known instances of abuse on sites like Facebook, Instagram, Medium, and many others that have edit buttons. It's still a rare instance, but Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer of Meta, brought attention to a bitcoin scam employing Facebook's editing feature earlier this year.
Twitter is only discussing editable tweets for users of its Blue subscription, which recently saw a price increase in the US from $2.99 to $4.99 per month. That implies that a regular user edit button is unlikely to appear very soon. A list of the most popular articles posted by the people you follow, a customized navigation bar, and even NFT hexagon profile pictures are accessible to Twitter Blue subscribers in addition to other features.
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