FINALLY! Twitter has started testing the ability to edit tweets ... and in other news, Hell freezes over

Sam J. | 2:22 PM on September 01, 2022

Twitter … doing something its users want? GET OUTTA HERE. For years (decades now?), Twitter users have been asking, no, BEGGING Twitter to allow them to edit tweets for typos and errors, and for years (decades) Twitter has been ignoring them.

Until now.

Could it really be happening?

Twitter starts testing ability to edit tweets https://t.co/3Uos1J8D5e

— Axios (@axios) September 1, 2022

From Axios:

Twitter announced Thursday it has started internal testing of a long-requested feature that will allow people to edit tweets after they are sent.

Driving the news: Twitter said its edit feature is being tested internally and will expand to “a select group of people including Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks.” The company had said in April it planned to begin testing editable tweets, shortly after Elon Musk had polled his followers on whether they wanted to be able to edit posts.

Only certain people will be able to edit their tweets.

Because of course.

How it works: In its current iteration, the edit feature allows customers to change their tweets “a few times” within 30 minutes of posting.

But after that, too bad so sad.

Ok, maybe this isn’t as exciting as we thought. Sounds like it’s something only ‘the chosen’ will have access to, or those willing to pay to use the tech giant.

The feature is currently designed to allow users to edit tweets "a few times" within 30 minutes of posting.

—Edited tweets will include an icon, timestamp and label

—Tapping the icon will take viewers to a history link with past versions of the tweet https://t.co/3Uos1J8D5e

— Axios (@axios) September 1, 2022