Tweet Editing Looks Set to Become a Twitter Blue Exclusive Feature
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- 10 Aug 2022
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It’s been the most highly requested Twitter feature upgrade for years, and now, it looks close to becoming a reality, with initial testing of Twitter’s coming edit function set to be made available to Twitter Blue subscribers in the app.
As you can see in this introductory screen, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, the new edit option, which Twitter has been working on for several months, now looks set to be launched as part of Twitter Blue, along with the other add-on tools that you can access .
At least, for now. Twitter also recently announced that the cost of Twitter Blue is rising, which, at the time, seemed odd, given that Twitter’s jacking up the price by 67% with zero feature upgrades.
But maybe this was in anticipation of tweet editing becoming available, and the likely boost in interest that Twitter Blue will see as a result.
As noted, an edit button has long been the most requested Twitter addition, with people pressuring former CEO Jack Dorsey for years to add the option in order to improve the service.
Back in 2020, Dorsey killed off virtually any hopes of an edit option ever making it to the live environment, by explaining that:
“A lot people want it because they want to fix a quick spelling error or a broken link or whatnot, and that’s great, we’ve considered a one-minute window or a 30-second window to correct something, but that also means that we have to delay sending that tweet out, because once it’s out, people see it. So, these are all the considerations, it’s just work. But we’ll probably never do it.”
That 30-second window eventually became the ‘Undo Tweet’ option that’s currently part of Twitter Blue, which is kind of like an edit option. But also, not really. Not at all. Read More...
