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Twitter starts testing an edit button, but you have to pay for it

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Twitter is now testing its highly-requested Edit Tweet feature. After years of memes and jokes, editable tweets will be available to some Twitter Blue subscribers later this month. The feature is currently undergoing “internal testing,” and appears to mimic Facebook in its edit style, with a linked edit history for tweets that we saw in leaks earlier this year.

“Tweets will be able to be edited a few times in the 30 minutes following their publication,” according to a Twitter blog post. “Edited Tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label so it’s clear to readers that the original Tweet has been modified.”

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An edited Tweet.

The edit label will include a complete edit history, with past…

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Author: Tom Warren. [Source Link (*), The Verge – All Posts]

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