Arguably the best April Fools’ tease this year came from Twitter, which posted a message that read “we are working on the edit button«. Given the date, we all understood that it was of course a joke, but for real the joke was to pass it off as a joke because the truth is they were working on it for some time now. Just a few days later, Elon Musk wanted to “drop it”, taking credit for making the messaging feature real…something the social network itself responded to in what can be seen as the first meeting between the two sides .

In the months that have passed since then we learned more about the long-awaited tweet editing feature. We learned, and this seemed like great news to me, that the history of message edits will be preserved, avoiding tampering with the meaning of messages once they are able to reach a high number of interactions. This was one of the first things related to post editing that we could see coming into play. Much information was concentrated in the month of April.

Since then, we’ve had plenty of news on Twitter about the dos and don’ts of Elon Musk’s soap opera and other features, but the edit button hasn’t appeared in the headlines or been seen again until a while ago. However, when we learned a month ago that the social network would be raising the prices of Twitter Blue, we thought it was a sign of two important aspects of the tweet editing feature: that it is already nearing its arrival and that, at least initially, it will only be available to subscribers of this payment method.

And it seems we weren’t wrong. Just a month later, the social network he announced that they’re already running tests, so we’ll start seeing reports that they’ve been tweaked soon. As we told you back then, edits will be limited to 30 minutes from publication, edits will also be indicated in embedded tweets, and the feature will only be released to Twitter Blue users, at least for now.

deployment yes it is expected to be slow and possibly limited. Both geographically and by account typesthe social network does not provide concrete information about phases and deadlines, which also coincides with the more than slow pace of deployment of Twitter Blue.