After long years of waiting, Twitter finally lets you edit your tweets

“This message has been edited.” This phrase awaited by Twitter users will soon appear on the social network. The Californian company announced this Thursday the next possibility of correcting or modifying a message published on its platform.

baptized edit tweet, the function was already in internal tests, explains Twitter. But it will not be generalized in the immediate future. The network of little birds intends to test it before with subscribers to Twitter Blue, its paid service currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, before expanding. “Because this feature is the most requested to date, we want to make sure we implement it correctly,” we explained internally.

30 minutes to correct

Twitter hopes to take advantage of this testing phase with its most advanced audience to adjust the necessary settings. This refers in particular to the time allowed to make the correction and the modifications that can be made to the message.

Initially, tweets can be edited “multiple times within 30 minutes of posting.” A pencil icon will appear to indicate that a correction has been made to the original message and when.

By clicking on the added message, it will be possible to see the history of modifications and the corrected messages. Twitter decided to limit the time given to “protect the integrity of the conversation and archive, for the public, what was said.”

edit tweet It will begin rolling out in September to Twitter Blue users in a country that was not announced by the network. The testing phase will then be extended to other countries. This does not mean that in case of negative comments about the use made of the function, Twitter offers it to all its users. “We will be very attentive to the impact of this feature on the way people read, write and interact with Tweets,” the platform underlines in its blog.