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Twitter Tests Edit Button, Promises We'll 'Be Okay'l

Twitter Tests Edit Button, Promises We’ll ‘Be Okay’

Twitter on Thursday revealed that it’s testing an edit button with a cheeky tweet and a blog post outlining its plan for the long-awaited feature. The microblogging social media site has been working on the edit button since last year.

if you see an edited Tweet it’s because we’re testing the edit button

this is happening and you’ll be okay

— Twitter (@Twitter) September 1, 2022

“if you see an edited Tweet it’s because we’re testing the edit button,” the matter wrote. “this is happening and you’ll be okay.”

The editing lets you make progresses to your tweet for 30 minutes after it’s been originated. Doing so will add an icon, timestamp and stamp so readers can see it’s been modified, and tabbing the stamp will show an edit history that includes past versions.

“Edit Tweet goes beyond obtaining typos. It takes some of the pressure off tweeting, especially for people who don’t tweet as often,” Twitter GM of Consumer and Revenue Product Jay Sullivan wrote on Thursday. “This is one of many features we’re exploring to help farmland join the global conversation on their own terms.”

Twitter’s team is testing the feature internally, and that test will be “initially expanded” to Twitter Blue subscribers later this month. The $5-a-month subscription service lets you undo tweets and read ad-free articles.

People have hounded Twitter to add an edit button for years, but co-founder and then-CEO Jack Dorsey said in 2020 that Twitter would “probably never” add one. In April, it confirmed that the Edit feature would be coming, days after Tesla chief Elon Musk joined Twitter’s board and a few weeks by he made a deal to buy the company for $44 billion (which he’s immediately trying to back out of).