Twitter blue subscribers in Canada, New Zealand and Australia will be able to edit their tweets, the social media company announced on its platform on Monday. 

The company has said that the feature will roll out in the US soon but has yet to provide a specific launch date. Twitter users in these three countries will now be able to edit their tweets within a span of 30 minutes after posting. In addition, there’s 5-time edit limit within the 30 minute time period. 

“Edit Tweet is a feature that
lets people make changes to their Tweet after it’s been published. Think of it as a short period of time to do
things like fix typos, add missed tags, and more,” the company had written in a September 1 blog. 

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It’s likely that the limit on the number of edits allowed was added to prevent people from abusing the feature and making drastic changes to their content.

However, edited Tweets will now come with a time stamp which will show when the Tweet was edited. Additionally, Twitter users will be able to tap the edit label to see the editing history of the Tweet. On the main feed, scrolling users will be able to tell that a Tweet has been edited, by the little pencil icon that Twitter will set up next to them to show that it has been modified. 

The edit feature has been a highly requested feature for a long time. However, Twitter’s release in select countries is in an attempt to “learn and observe how people use Edit Tweet.” The company has said that it will be keeping a close eye on how the newly rolled out feature will affect the way users interact and communicate on its platform. 

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Twitter Blue currently costs $5 a month in different regions. In fact, the edit feature was something that tech billionaire Elon Musk had supported back when the deal was first being talked about.

In what has been a twist to the ongoing Twitter-Elon Musk saga, the co-founder of SpaceX has said that he is now willing to buy the social media company for $44 billion instead of going to court to get out of the deal.