Twitter is regularly making the edit button obtainable for its paid subscribers in the US, the social media firm mentioned on Thursday, days after launching the extensively requested function in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
In an official tweet, Twitter introduced that it’s increasing the Edit Tweet take a look at to the US, at present restricted to Twitter Blue members.
Twitter customers have for years demanded the flexibility to edit their tweets after publishing them, principally to repair errors corresponding to typos.
Nonetheless, Twitter and its observers have debated whether or not permitting tweets to be edited might result in dangerous results, such because the unfold of misinformation.
Subscribers who pay $4.99 (practically Rs. 410) per thirty days for Twitter Blue will be capable to edit their tweets “just a few occasions” within half-hour of publication, Twitter said in September.
They at present have entry to a function that holds tweets for as much as one minute, permitting customers to evaluation the tweet and “undo” it earlier than the put up is revealed.
Edited tweets may have an icon and timestamp to show when the put up was final edited. Customers will be capable to click on on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit historical past and former variations of the put up.
Earlier this week, Twitter rolled out the function to allow customers to edit tweets for these subscribed to its Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The long-awaited modifying instrument take a look at “went properly,” so it’s being made extra extensively obtainable, the San Francisco-based tech agency mentioned in a tweet, including that it’s “coming quickly” to the US.
San Francisco-based Twitter is at present attempting to achieve an settlement after months-long litigation, with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who proposed to purchase the social media firm in a $44 billion (practically Rs. 3,61,600) deal earlier this yr.
© Thomson Reuters 2022
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