The Verge reports that Twitter is rolling out its tweet editing feature to Twitter Blue users in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. According to a tweet from the company, users in the United States will also get the feature “soon.
Last week, we saw an example of an edited tweet where the company produced a tweet of its own. This tweet will appear normal but will have a pencil icon next to the date, as well as text letting the reader know that the tweet was last edited. Clicking on this icon will bring up a page containing the edited tweet, as well as a history of edits. According to Twitter’s support documentation, the person posting the tweet has a maximum of 30 minutes to make changes and can only make five edits.
The company has been promising to roll out this feature for some time – it announced in April that it was working on the ability to edit tweets, and then said it would start rolling out the feature by the end of September. It did miss the deadline slightly, but given how big a change editable tweets have been for the platform, it’s probably for the best that the company rolled out the feature slowly.
The feature is still in testing, and it’s in the Labs section of Twitter Blue, Twitter’s $4.99-a-month subscription service. According to a support document, users will also only be able to edit certain types of tweets: including replies, threads, retweets and top tweets, among others.
