Popular microblogging and social networking service; Twitter is now testing an editing feature that will make it possible for its users to change or edit the content of their tweets up to thirty (30) minutes after they have been posted. Users will however, still be able to view the previous versions.
The social media giant made it known that tweets will be possible to be editing “a few times” in the half hour.
Any edited tweet, will be accompanied by a label, time stamp and icon. This will ensure that users are aware when posts have been edited or modified. Once a user taps on the label, the edit history will open up and reveal the previous versions of the tweet.
According to Twitter, “The time limit and version history play an important role here. They help protect the integrity of the conversation and create a publicly accessible record of what was said.”
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The editing feature is currently going through testing internally at Twitter. It will then be rolled out to subscribers of Twitter’s Blue service in the next couple of weeks.
Twitter however made it known that it will be limited to only one country at first.
According to help.twitter.com Twitter Blue is a monthly subscription that gives the most engaged people on Twitter exclusive access to premium features. It is currently available in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States (US).
The Twitter Blue monthly subscription service offers services like an ‘undo’ option which provide users with a sixty (60) second time period to correct a published tweet before it is made public.
The social media giant; Twitter, made it known that the edit option has been the most requested feature by its users which number almost 238 million.
It stated that the users should look at the test duration as “a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add missed tags and more”.
According to Kenya, “We’re hoping that, with the availability of edit tweet, tweeting will feel more approachable and less stressful. You should be able to participate in the conversation in a way that makes sense to you, and we’ll keep working on ways that make it feel effortless to do just that.”
In April of 2022 shortly after Elon Musk carried out a poll on the topic, Twitter made it known that it was working on an edit feature. It however, did not provide any more detail.
Twitter at the time, made it known that it had been working on the edit feature before Elon Musk got involved.
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While the Billionaire entrepreneur, investor, media proprietor and business magnate; Elon Musk had at first agreed to purchase the social media platform for a total of 44 billion United States (US) Dollars (which is around 5.28 Trillion Kenyan Shillings), he is now reportedly looking to get out of the deal.
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