On September 1st, 2022 Twitter began rolling out its most anticipated and requested feature: Edit Tweet. The feature is currently only available for internal testing but Twitter Blue subscribers in specific regions will get the first opportunity to test it publicly. Twitter intended to monitor user behavior before finalizing the feature for a full public rollout.
Update: On October 3rd, 2022 Twitter announced that, after successful testing, Edit Tweet is being rolled out to Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. A US rollout is coming soon.
Edit Tweet lets users do exactly that, but not without some limits:
- Edits can only be made within 30 minutes from the time of posting
- Tweets can only be edited 5 times in that 30-minute window
The idea is to provide enough time to fix typos, add missing media files, and include hashtags that might have been missed.
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