NEW YORK – Twitter announced this Thursday that it has begun testing a feature that will allow users to edit tweets within 30 minutes after they are published, finally making the wish of many users who have been demanding this option for years.
The company, in a message on its website, explained that for now the tests are internal but will be extended in the coming weeks to Twitter subscribers Blue, a paid service available in various countries.
The social network proposes the function of editing tweets as a way of correcting typos or adding labels that have been forgotten, for example, so initially has set a maximum of half an hour to make the changes.
The edited messages will be marked with the time of the last edition and an icon that, if clicked, allows you to see the previous versions of the tweet.
According to Twitter, “the time limit and the history of versions play an important role” in order to “protect the integrity of the conversation and create a public archive of what has been said”.
“We hope that, with the possibility to Edit Tweet, tweeting will be more accessible and less stressful“, explained the company.
Twitter recognized that this is the most demanded function so far by users and said that it wants to observe carefully during the testing period how it affects the way people read, write and relate to tweets.
The social network announced last April that it was working on this edit button, which he had resisted for years.
The announcement came shortly after billionaire Elon Musk conducted a survey among his followers on this subject, although Twitter has since denied the first moment that his decision responded to it and he assured that he had been working on the idea since the previous year.
Musk, who by then and a was the company’s largest shareholder, shortly thereafter submitted an offer to take over its entirety for $44,000 million dollars that was accepted by Twitter, but a few months later it decided to cancel the agreement.
Now, the two parties are heading for a trial scheduled for October, after the company sued the businessman to force him to complete the operation.
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