Twitter’s edit button is rolling out to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand • TechCrunch

Twitter is rolling out the power to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the social community announced on Monday. The corporate says the edit tweet button will roll out to Blue subscribers within the U.S. quickly, however didn’t present a selected launch date.

With the edit button, customers will have the ability to edit their tweets for as much as half-hour after posting, however customers can solely edit their tweets 5 occasions inside this era. It’s attainable that Twitter launched these limits to cease folks from abusing the function by altering content material drastically, whereas nonetheless giving customers sufficient time to right typos or add hashtags. The edited tweet can have a timestamp displayed when the tweet was edited. Folks studying the tweet can faucet the label to view the enhancing historical past of the tweet.

Nonetheless, Twitter beforehand advised TechCrunch that it was observing person conduct, and that the variety of edits accessible to customers within the accredited time-frame might change.

“With Edit Tweet, we’re hoping to make Tweeting simpler and extra approachable, giving folks extra alternative and management in how they categorical themselves and the way they contribute to the numerous conversations taking place on Twitter,” the corporate stated in a weblog put up final month.

The social community beforehand stated it’s introducing the function to paid customers first to collect extra suggestions in order that it might tune the edit button’s performance accordingly.

Twitter Blue is at the moment accessible solely in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. The social community hasn’t stated when it plans to roll out the subscription plan to different nations — a lot much less what its plans are to roll out the Edit Tweet function to the remainder of its customers.

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