Twitter is starting to test its edit function in response to high consumer demand, the social media platform announced Thursday.
The company has been running tests internally and will soon allow select users, including those that purchase the platform’s $4.99 per month “Blue Service,” to test the button themselves.
Users will only have 30 minutes from publishing the tweet to then edit the tweet before the tweet is permanently preserved as originally drafted. Once a tweet has been edited, the tweet will have a tag on it, showing that it was edited, that users can then click on to see editing history.
The company claims the function gives people the ability to correct typos, but doesn’t necessarily give bad actors the ability to wholesale edit tweets for either nefarious or disingenuous purposes, because people can still see original versions of tweets.
“Since this is our most requested feature to date, we want to make sure we get it right,” Twitter said in a statement.
The company launched the edit button project in April after a poll on Twitter led by Elon Musk showed high support for the feature. At the time, Musk had been trying to acquire the company after he noticed that some political accounts, such as the Babylon Bee’s, had been censored for allegedly violating Twitter’s hateful conduct policy.
Musk is now entrenched in litigation with Twitter, which sued the tech titan for reneging on the terms of the agreement after he pulled out of the deal, claiming that the company misled him about the number of bot and spam accounts on the site.
Twitter has escalated efforts to improve the platform as it fights with Musk in court. On Tuesday, the company announced Twitter Circle, a way to send tweets to a select group of people rather than a user’s entire follower base. Circles can contain up to 150 people, and users can adjust who’s in and who’s out at any time without members of a circle being notified.