While, as we learned a few hours ago, the Twitter-Elon Musk soap opera has now jumped into the arena of international geopoliticswith the social network’s lawyers saying Musk would back away from the purchase because of the risk of World War III, while Musk’s legal team continues to try to delay the trial to include testimony from Twitter’s former security chief, finally, while telenovela year still maintains the ability to surprise us, fortunately the social network also maintains the rest of its agenda, i.e. the one dedicated to improving the service.

As you may recall, the announcement and recognition for the long-awaited inclusion of a feature to edit tweets that have already been sent, marked the first of many frictions (well, initially friction, at this point we can talk about right hands on the chin) between the two parties, so that the news about the buy-no-buy and the progress of the editing function were produced in parallel.

In this respect the social network announced last week that it is already testing the feature, so it is already possible to see some edited tweets. In addition, it was previously announced that the edit would be time-limited to a maximum of 30 minutes after the original tweet was posted, that the edit history would be kept and publicly displayed, and that said edits would also be displayed in embedded tweets.

So we were only missing one very important piece of information that Engadget revealed, and that’s it Twitter will allow a maximum of five edits per tweet. In this way, we already have a complete picture of the feature based on its limitations (number of editions, deadline and history preservation), and from this point of view, the social network seems to have struck a balance between allowing messages to be edited, but preventing the feature from being used to subvert the original meaning of a message once users endorse it, be it likes, retweets, quotes, embeds, etc.

It seems that yes, its deployment will be slower than expected. We’ve already told you that, at least in its first phase, the message editing feature will be exclusive to Twitter Blue users, a service that’s currently only available in Australia, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand. So we might think that the feature will be available in four countries, but it seems that is not the case at this time only New Zealand subscribers will have access to the edit feature. It will later be expanded to three more countries, but there is no news of further expansions at this time.