Twitter is steadily making the edit button accessible for its paid subscribers within the United States, the social media firm mentioned on Thursday, days after launching the broadly requested characteristic in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

In an official tweet, Twitter introduced that it’s increasing the Edit Tweet check to the US, at present restricted to Twitter Blue members.

Twitter customers have for years demanded the flexibility to edit their tweets after publishing them, principally to repair errors corresponding to typos.

However, Twitter and its observers have debated whether or not permitting tweets to be edited may result in dangerous results, such because the unfold of misinformation.

Subscribers who pay $4.99 (almost Rs. 410) per 30 days for Twitter Blue will have the ability to edit their tweets “a few times” inside half-hour of publication, Twitter mentioned in September.

They at present have entry to a characteristic that holds tweets for as much as one minute, permitting customers to evaluation the tweet and “undo” it earlier than the publish is printed.

Edited tweets can have an icon and timestamp to show when the publish was final edited. Users will have the ability to click on on the label of an edited tweet to view the edit historical past and former variations of the publish.

Earlier this week, Twitter rolled out the characteristic to allow customers to edit tweets for these subscribed to its Blue service in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The long-awaited enhancing device check “went well,” so it’s being made extra broadly accessible, the San Francisco-based tech agency mentioned in a tweet, including that it’s “coming soon” to the United States.

San Francisco-based Twitter is at present making an attempt to achieve an settlement after months-long litigation, with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who proposed to purchase the social media firm in a $44 billion (almost Rs. 3,61,600) deal earlier this 12 months.

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