Twitter could quickly cost customers $8 a month for verification, however Elon Musk reportedly plans to provide all customers a long-requested function without spending a dime: the edit button. According to Platformer’s Casey Newton, the transfer is within the works alongside the extra sweeping adjustments to Twitter Blue that Musk previewed Tuesday.
For now, Twitter’s edit button is just out there to subscribers within the present model of Twitter Blue, which prices $4.99 a month and is just reside within the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The function offers customers a 30-minute window to vary their tweets, and features a revision historical past.
Musk thus far hasn’t publicly talked (or tweeted) about his plans for the edit button since taking management of the corporate. But the function was one of many first Twitter-related matters he raised after he first acquired a big stake within the firm this spring. And Twitter confirmed it was engaged on the function simply hours after Musk polled his followers on whether or not the platform ought to have an edit function. (Millions of his followers vote “yse” within the ballot — Twitter has beforehand stated an edit button has lengthy been its most-requested function.)
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At the identical time, Musk can also be planning extra substantial adjustments to Twitter’s subscription service. He’s stated he qill permit anybody to get verified in the event that they pay $8 a month, and also will present subscribers fewer adverts. He’s additionally reportedly planning to nix the ad-free articles that’s at present included as perk with Twitter Blue, however desires to work with publishers to permit subscribers behind their paywalls.