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.

Blue subscribers in these international locations can now edit their tweets for as much as half-hour after posting. However, customers can solely edit their tweets 5 instances inside this 30-minute time interval. It’s attainable that Twitter launched these limits to cease individuals from abusing the function by altering content material drastically, whereas nonetheless giving customers sufficient time to appropriate typos or add hashtags. When you edit a tweet, it would show a timestamp showcasing when the tweet was edited. Folks studying the tweet can faucet the label to view the modifying historical past of the tweet.

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

“With Edit Tweet, we’re hoping to make Tweeting simpler and extra approachable, giving individuals extra alternative and management in how they specific themselves and the way they contribute to the various conversations occurring on Twitter,” the corporate mentioned in a weblog put up final month.

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

Twitter Blue is at the moment out there solely in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. The social community hasn’t mentioned when it plans to roll out the subscription plan to different international locations — 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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