Twitter will allow you to edit your tweet as much as 5 instances

Twitter introduced a much-anticipated characteristic final week — the flexibility to edit tweets. The firm stated that when the characteristic is on the market customers will have the ability to edit their tweets for as much as half-hour from posting. However, there’s a catch: customers can solely edit their tweets 5 instances inside this era.

While this restrict appears adequate for correcting typos, importing media recordsdata, or including some tags, the corporate might need launched it to cease folks from abusing the characteristic by altering the content material on the tweet on a whim. The social media agency informed Thealike that it’s at present observing consumer habits and the variety of edits accessible to customers within the authorized timeframe might change.

The “edit tweet” characteristic can be first accessible to customers who pay for the elective Twitter Blue subscription, nevertheless it received’t be rolling out to all paid customers initially. Twitter confirmed that New Zealand-based subscribers will first get the characteristic and will probably be later pushed to Twitter Blue customers in Australia, Canada, and the U.S as soon as it learns extra about utilization patterns. So subscribers in these three international locations might need to attend a bit longer and use the service with out the marquee characteristic.

After the corporate laid out its plans for the edit button, specialists opined that the device may very well be used to unfold political misinformation or crypto scams. But these situations will solely come to the fore as soon as a bigger set of individuals begin utilizing the characteristic on common foundation. It’s too early to determine if the characteristic will turn into a menace or simply an possibility for folks to repair their dumb typos.

The social community has confronted a ton of scrutiny over the previous couple of months over the way it has dealt with its safety practices, spam-account-catching strategies, and youngster sexual abuse materials (CSAM) detection. The final thing the social media firm would need is for one of the crucial anticipated options to trigger havoc.