The tweet had ‘Last Edited’ written at the bottom of the post. (Representative)
New Delhi:
Twitter has posted its first edited tweet weeks after the microblogging company announced that it was actively testing an edit button. The tweet by Twitter Blue handle on Friday was edited after it was posted showing how the feature will actually work.
Greetings!
Here’s a test to make sure the edit button works, we’ll let you know how it goes
— Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) September 29, 2022
At the bottom of the tweet was a pencil icon and a label ‘Last Edited’, which when clicked shows what changes were made to the post.
The feature is still not available to the general public and the company had previously mentioned that it would be available to Twitter Blue users first. To use the edit button, users will have to pay $4.99 per month for the Twitter Blue service, at least initially.
Twitter said earlier this month that testing “edit tweets” would begin with internal staff, then expand to the platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscription population.
Twitter Blue is yet to be launched in India but the subscription offering is available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
“Edit Tweets is a feature that allows people to edit their Tweets after they have been published,” the company said on its blog. “Think of it as less time to fix typos, add missed tags, and more.”
Under the amendment, users can edit a tweet “a few times” 30 minutes after the initial posting, transparently making the changes “to help protect the integrity of the conversation and a publicly accessible record of what was said.” to make” note. said the company.