After years of customers begging for an edit button, they’re lastly getting their want. The firm is the long-awaited function in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, however just for subscribers. The possibility is not obtainable within the US simply but, however Twitter says customers there’ll get entry quickly. It plans to supply the function in different markets too.

Twitter Blue subscribers who ship a tweet and notice they made a typo or two may have half-hour to make edits. They could make adjustments . For the sake of transparency, edited tweets have a modified timestamp that reads “last edited” and the time of the final change. Click the timestamp and you will see the whole edit historical past.

Twitter that it was in the end beginning to take a look at an edit button. There had been that the function might embrace an edit historical past display screen. At the start of September, Twitter stated that it had, actually, created an edit button. It printed a take a look at tweet on the finish of the month and, a couple of days later, the edit button goes out into the wild.

The firm continues to be technically testing the function — it’s going to be obtainable as a part of the Labs part of the . Moreover, you possibly can solely edit unique tweets and quote tweets, based on a support page. Many varieties of tweets can’t be edited, equivalent to threads, replies, retweets, pinned tweets, Super Follow tweets and ones you draft on third-party apps.

Still, it is a begin. Twitter’s method to the edit button is smart by way of maintaining issues as clear as doable. It’s straightforward to think about information organizations making adjustments to a breaking information tweet that is going viral as clarifications or extra particulars are available. Maybe if Twitter opens up the edit button to everybody, they will be capable of repair innocuous typos with out an excessive amount of strife.