Contrary to general expectations by Twitter users globally, the long awaited edit menu will still not be universally launched as it will first be accessed by paid subscribers before going free.

Edited tweets will have an icon and timestamp to display when the post was last edited. Users will be able to click on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit history and previous versions of the post.

Twitter has experimented with versions of an edit button. Subscribers of Twitter Blue, the company’s paid subscription product, currently have access to a feature that holds tweets for up to one minute, allowing users to review the tweet and “undo” it before the post is published.

Twitter has been testing a widely requested edit button, a feature that will be rolled out to paid subscribers in the coming weeks. But there are some things users need to know before they get carried away in excitement over the new development.

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Twitter is internally testing a widely requested edit button, a feature that will be rolled out to paid subscribers in the coming weeks, the social media company said this week.

Twitter Blue is currently only available in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which appears to mean that most of the world will have to wait longer before getting the ability to edit tweets. 

For years, Twitter users have demanded the ability to edit their tweets after publishing in order to fix errors like typos. Those requests have led to jokes online that Twitter would rather introduce any other product, such as newsletters, before giving users their top-requested feature.

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Soon, those demands will be met. Users will be able to edit their tweets “a few times” within 30 minutes of publication, Twitter said in a blog post.

Kelechi Deca

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