Subscribers to the Twitter Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand can correct a tweet up to five times within 30 minutes of posting it.
After a test phase, an “edit” button is now available to paying Twitter users in a handful of countries, the platform announced on Monday (October 3).
Subscribers to the five-dollar-a-month Twitter Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand can now correct a tweet up to five times within 30 minutes of posting it, the San Francisco-based company says. The test launched at the beginning of September “went smoothly”and the deployment of the feature will be done “soon” in the United States, Twitter added.
A request from Elon Musk
“You have to see it as a brief moment to correct typos, add tags and more”, had explained the firm to the blue bird in early September on its website. A small pen icon should indicate that a tweet has been edited, and the edit history will be accessible. Elon Musk, currently in a legal battle with Twitter over the takeover of the platform, had repeatedly supported this request, like many other users.
Subscribers to Twitter Blue, accessible only in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States “benefit from advanced features and help us test them” before their wider distribution, specifies the social network. The purpose of this new button is to make sending a tweet “more accessible and less stressful”said Twitter.