The trial of ‘Edit Tweet’ will start with the agency’s staff after which be expanded to the platform’s ‘Twitter Blue’ subscribers.

Twitter says it has begun actively testing an edit button, after months of publicly discussing such a tweak.

The trial of “Edit Tweet” will start with inner staff, then be expanded out to the platform’s “Twitter Blue” subscription inhabitants, the corporate mentioned on Thursday.

“Edit Tweet is a characteristic that lets folks make adjustments to their Tweet after it’s been printed,” the corporate mentioned on its weblog. “Consider it as a brief time period to do issues like repair typos, add missed tags, and extra.”

Below the revision being studied, customers may edit a tweet “just a few instances” within the half-hour after the preliminary posting, in ways in which transparently notice the adjustments to “assist shield the integrity of the dialog and create a publicly accessible document of what was mentioned”, the corporate mentioned.

To make it clear {that a} tweet has been modified, they’ll be labelled and seem with an icon and timestamp. Customers can lookup previous variations of the tweet by tapping the label.

Twitter mentioned it’s testing the edit characteristic with a small group of customers so it could determine and resolve potential points.

“This contains how folks may misuse the characteristic,” the corporate mentioned. “You may by no means be too cautious.”

Tesla Chief Government Elon Musk, who’s locked in a lawsuit with Twitter over a possible acquisition of the micro-blogging platform, had backed an edit button shortly earlier than the corporate mentioned in April that it was finding out the change.

Customers of Twitter Blue – the subscription providing now accessible in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – “obtain early entry to options and assist us take a look at them earlier than they arrive to Twitter”, the corporate mentioned.

The purpose of the tweak? “Tweeting will really feel extra approachable and fewer annoying, Twitter mentioned. “You need to be capable to take part within the dialog in a method that is sensible to you, and we’ll preserve engaged on ways in which make it really feel easy to do exactly that.”

Nonetheless, a Twitter spokesperson mentioned the take a look at is not going to essentially be employed universally on the platform.