Twitter confirms that its incoming edit button will have a few rules beyond time limits

The coveted Twitter ‘edit button’ is officially on its way, confirmed last week by the big Blue Bird itself. If you’ve tweeted before, you’ll know the pain of spotting a typo just milliseconds after it goes live. Then you’re required to shamefully delete the tweet and start over – with a keener eye than before. Or, you could just leave it for the world to see. Own it.

This shouldn’t be a worry for much longer after the edit button rolls out to Twitter’s users (we hope). See, the feature is only available to Twitter Blue subscribers at the moment. Even if we wanted to subscribe (we don’t) we can’t. Twitter Blue is only available in four countries; The U.S, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Learn from your past

Editing a tweet is simple, we assumed. Users are given a 30-minute window to fix their tweet, with a new, tiny caveat — tweets may only be edited five times. After that, you’re on your own. If you can’t fix a tweet in five attempts, should you even be on Twitter? Maybe slow down on the morning drinking?

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This may not be the case forever. While speaking to TechCrunch, Twitter said that it is still testing the waters with regard to the edit button. Some of the numbers could change before the full launch. For now, only Twitter itself has access to editing tweets. New Zealand is set to soon be the first test subject. We’re not sure how soon is ‘soon’, since Twitter hasn’t told anyone. After that, the rest of Twitter Blue can try the feature out. Only then will the platform decide the edit button’s fate for the rest of us non-paying plebs.

After a tweet has been edited, it’ll log the changes a user has made and display them openly below the polished tweet. Think of the ‘hidden replies’ button – we expect an edit history button will be found there too.

Source: TechCrunch