Twitter Rolls Out Edit Button to Paid Subscribers in US

Twitter is progressively making the edit button out there for its paid subscribers in the US, the social media firm mentioned on Thursday, days after launching the extensively requested characteristic in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In an official tweet, Twitter introduced that it’s increasing the Edit Tweet take a look at to the US, presently restricted to Twitter Blue members.

Twitter customers have for years demanded the power to edit their tweets after publishing them, largely to repair errors corresponding to typos.

Nonetheless, Twitter and its observers have debated whether or not permitting tweets to be edited may result in dangerous results, such because the unfold of misinformation.

Subscribers who pay $4.99 (practically Rs. 410) per 30 days for Twitter Blue will be capable of edit their tweets “a number of occasions” inside half-hour of publication, Twitter mentioned in September.

They presently have entry to a characteristic that holds tweets for as much as one minute, permitting customers to overview the tweet and “undo” it earlier than the put up is revealed.

Edited tweets may have an icon and timestamp to show when the put up was final edited. Customers will be capable of click on on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit historical past and former variations of the put up.

Earlier this week, Twitter rolled out the characteristic to allow customers to edit tweets for these subscribed to its Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The long-awaited enhancing software take a look at “went nicely,” so it’s being made extra extensively out there, the San Francisco-based tech agency mentioned in a tweet, including that it’s “coming quickly” to the US.

San Francisco-based Twitter is presently attempting to achieve an settlement after months-long litigation, with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who proposed to purchase the social media firm in a $44 billion (practically Rs. 3,61,600) deal earlier this yr.

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