Twitter finally launches an edit button for paying subscribers, months after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s poll

Edit Tweet, as the feature will be called, will let users make changes to their tweet for up to 30 minutes after it’s originally published

The feature will soon be available to users who pay US$4.99 per month for a subscription to Twitter Blue

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Twitter announced that it will soon start testing an edit button at its monthly subscription service. Photo: AFP/File

Published: 11:00pm, 1 Sep 2022Updated: 12:17am, 2 Sep 2022

Twitter Inc. is launching an edit button for the first time, after years of debate both internally and externally as to whether such a feature was a good idea for a product known for making posts go viral.

The edit feature will soon be available to users who pay US$4.99 per month for a subscription to Twitter Blue.

Edit Tweet, as the feature will be called, will let users make changes to their tweet for up to 30 minutes after it’s originally published. Tweets that are edited will carry a label, and others on Twitter will be able to click on the label to see prior versions of the post.

The company is specifically testing the edit button with a small group of users in hopes of quickly resolving possible issues, the company wrote in a blog post. The edit button will then roll out to Twitter Blue users in the coming weeks.

Twitter has experimented with versions of an edit button. Subscribers of Twitter Blue, currently have access to a feature that holds tweets for up to one minute, allowing users to review the tweet and “undo” it before the post is published.

Twitter has debated the pros and cons of an edit button for years, with some worried that it will be abused by people hoping to go viral, only to change the content of a message after it’s been retweeted.