Twitter has opposed allowing users to edit tweets after they have been posted. Starting on Thursday, that will change as Twitter has confirmed it will push out an edit button to its users. It represents the platform’s biggest change since 2017, when the character limit for messages was increased from 140 to 280. Twitter expressed its hope that having an edit option will make tweeting a little less stressful in a statement. Unfortunately, the button is still being tested by staff members and is not yet ready to be made available to the platform’s many hundred million users. Users of Twitter Blue, who pay $5 per month to remove in-feed advertisements and undo a tweet that you might wish to edit before it is viewed by everyone, will be given access later this month. To ensure that the functionality is being used as intended, the business noted that the test will be confined to a single country before slowly expanding to the rest of the world.

For so long, Twitter resisted adding an edit button due of the possibility of malicious users misusing the system. You could, for instance, edit a tweet that was widely shared or placed on other websites, giving it a meaning that its proponents did not intend. Due to this, safeguards have been established, such as the restriction on editing after 30 minutes of the initial posting. Additionally, revisions will be clearly marked as such to let readers know that you have made changes to the text, and the revision history will be made public. Even yet, there are ways to at least save some of your blushes when sending a Tweet that contains one or two irritating typos.