Twitter has launched a feature that allows users to edit their tweets for the first time, after years of internal and external debate.
The editing feature will soon be available to users who pay $4.99 per month for a Blue Twitter subscription.
The new option allows you to edit the tweet and the new feature is called “Edit Tweet” and enables users to make changes to their tweet up to 30 minutes after the tweet was originally sent.
Edited tweets are marked as edited tweets, and other Twitter users can click on the tag to see previous versions of the post.
Edited tweets will have an icon and timestamp to show when the post was last edited, plus users can click on an edited tweet’s label to view the edit history and previous versions of the post.
The company has been testing versions of the edit button that give subscribers of Twitter Blue, its paid subscription product, access to a feature that keeps tweets up to a minute and allows users to edit a tweet before publishing it. check and “cancel”.
Twitter confirmed that it had pressed the company to add the feature in recent months after US billionaire Elon Musk launched a poll through his account, which is followed by more than 80 million users. Working on adding this feature. A button to change the tweet content after publication.
The majority of his followers voted yes. Twitter quickly confirmed at the time that it was already testing the feature internally, and in an apparent attempt to distance the project from Musk’s influence, the company made it clear that it began work on the edit button before Musk actually took the poll. has done.
Source: Lebanon Debate
