The Twitter Edit Button Is Real

Only those who use Twitter Blue, the company’s monthly subscription service, will be able to use the controversial edit function at first. Considering how the platform works, the impact of users potentially being able to edit their posts at any given time could be good or bad. After all, tweets can be retweeted and responded to, so it’s easy enough to edit a tweet to make someone else look bad based on how they interacted with it prior to the edit. There’s a lot of room for abuse via gaslighting, but there are also reasons why a Twitter edit button may be a welcome addition. Something as simple as fixing a typo or a spelling mistake is reason enough to want an edit button. Amending a mistake could now be fixed with a simple 10 second edit instead of creating a thread. There’s a lot of potential for memes and jokes to be made around the edit button as well, which users will undoubtedly take advantage of if and when the feature is released site-wide.

For the time being, editing tweets is going to be limited to those who pay for Twitter Blue, and that’s a fairly small sample of users. The subscription service is only available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and every country has its own pricing. Twitter said it’s going to be testing what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible over the next few months before potentially moving to the next stage of introducing the feature.