Twitter will let you edit your tweets but only if you pay them money

For the longest time, Twitter users have demanded an Edit button. The feature however was written off by CEO Jack Dorsey, who said that the app will never get the edit button. However, Twitter did introduce Undo button with its Blue subscription, which more or else does the same job. But now Twitter's head of Product, Kavyon Beykapur wants to know from the users if they would pay for the edit button.

Twitter might be working on an edit button, but that could be limited to the paid subscribers only. Beykapur shared a poll on his personal handle asking users to get the option to edit the tweets. He wrote, "f @TwitterBlue let you edit tweets within a few minutes of posting them, would you want to subscribe? Let me know why yes/no in the replies!" Over 68.4 per cent of users have hit the "No" button while only 31.6 per cent of users have agreed to pay for the edit feature. Twitter might be considering the feature, and Beykapur even hinted that the feature would let users edit tweets a few minutes after posting them.

Dorsey had hinted in 2020 that Twitter might never get an edit button as he wants to preserve Twitter's original design which was primarily an SMS, text message service. "We started as an SMS, text message service. And as you all know, when you send a text, you can't really take it back. We wanted to preserve that vibe, that feeling, in the early days, he said. He said that while enabling the edit option would allow users to fix their typos, the users can also edit their tweets to mislead people. So, these are all the considerations. We'll probably never do it, he said.

Twitter had rolled out the Twitter Blue subscription plan last month in Australia and Canada. The subscription includes features like Undo Tweet, Bookmark Folders, Reader Mode, customizable icons on the app and themes. The plan has been priced at $3.49 CAD and $4.49 AUD per month in Canada and Australia respectively. "We intend to learn from these first two markets, iterate and improve the product as we go along," the company said. Although the feature has not been launched in India yet, the price of the subscription was spotted on the app at Rs 269 per month. The price no longer appears on the app store.