Twitter is finally testing its shiny new edit button but it will only be available to paid subscribers in the coming weeks.

‘It’s true: Edit Tweet is being tested by our team internally,’ the company confirmed in a blog post today.

‘The test will then be initially expanded to Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks,’

Even if you’re not in a test group, you will still be able to see if a tweet has been edited.

The new feature will let you make changes to your tweets after it’s been published.

Edited tweets will appear with an icon, timestamp, and label so it’s clear to readers that the original tweet has been modified. Tapping the label will take viewers to the tweet’s Edit History, which will include past versions of the tweet.

The biggest concern about the edit feature itself as pointed out by critics is the potential for people to misuse it by editing a viral tweet to say something completely different from the original one.

Having a time limit and version history is expected to ‘protect the integrity of the conversation’, so people can’t just edit a tweet after it goes viral for instance.

Later this month, Twitter will be expanding access to the ‘Edit Tweet’ button for Twitter Blue subscribers.

As part of their subscription, Twitter Blue users receive early access to features and the company said that the test will be localised to a single country at first and be expanded in time.

Twitter also said that it was keeping tabs on how the feature impacts the way people read, write, and engage with tweets.

In April, Twitter confirmed that it was working on the long-awaited edit feature that users have been requesting for years.

A month later, we got our first glimpse of it thanks to tech researcher Jane Manchun Wong who goes digging in companies’ code to find hidden features.

So far it looks Wong was right about getting 30 minutes after publishing a tweet to make any changes to it using the edit button.

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