Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social network announced on Monday. The company says the edit tweet button will roll out to Blue subscribers in the U.S. soon, but didn’t provide a specific launch date.
With the edit button, users will be able to edit their tweets for up to 30 minutes after posting, but users can only edit their tweets five times within this period. It’s possible that Twitter introduced these limits to stop people from abusing the feature by changing content drastically, while still giving users enough time to correct typos or add hashtags. The edited tweet will have a timestamp displayed when the tweet was edited. People reading the tweet can tap the label to view the editing history of the tweet.
However, Twitter previously told that it was observing user behavior, and that the number of edits available to users in the approved time frame could change.
“With Edit Tweet, we’re hoping to make Tweeting easier and more approachable, giving people more choice and control in how they express themselves and how they contribute to the many conversations happening on Twitter,” the company said in a blog post last month.
The social network previously said it’s introducing the feature to paid users first to gather more feedback so that it can tune the edit button’s functionality accordingly.
Twitter Blue is currently available only in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. The social network hasn’t said when it plans to roll out the subscription plan to other countries — much less what its plans are to roll out the Edit Tweet feature to the rest of its users.
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