Twitter has started enabling the option to edit messages. How it works and what the limitations are

Long-awaited by Twitter fans, the tweet editing feature is officially available to Twitter Blue subscribers in several countries.

Allaying fears of eroding trust in the platform’s content, the option to edit already-published messages comes with fairly strict limitations, however, as Twitter wants to ensure that the introduction of this feature does not compromise the credibility of the messaging platform.

Available first to Twitter Blue subscribers in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the edit teweet option can only be accessed within the first 30 minutes of initial publication and limited to 5 successive edits. In addition, there is a history of all changes made, time-stamped with the time of the edit and permanently accessible using the symbol displayed next to any tweet that has been changed from its original form.

According to the platform administrators, the current implementation of the edit option should be sufficient to fix any spelling errors or errors in the information delivered with the tweet.

plus, a version history is available on every edited Tweet so you know what changed pic.twitter.com/E3eZSj7NsL

– Twitter Blue (@TwitterBlue) October 3, 2022

Important to know, to be able to edit your tweets that are wrong or have become “awkward” in the meantime, you have to pay a subscription fee of $4.99 per month, corresponding to the Twitter Blue package. The good news is that the premium package comes with other benefits. For example, you can save various Tweets in lists called “collections”, which can be organised by category. That way, you’ll be able to quickly go back to specific posts on the social network. Then you have access to customise your profile colour and the icon displayed in your phone’s menu. There’s a limited selection of colours for personalisation: six for your profile and eight coloured icons.

Also on the list of benefits is Undo Tweet, which lets you quickly delete a tweet if it was sent by mistake. At the moment, Twitter administrators aren’t giving an exact timeline for global activation of the edit option.