Twitter Blue Subscribers in the U.S. Can Now Edit Tweets

Paid Twitter subscribers in the U.S., or Twitter Blue members, can now edit their tweets within the first 30 minutes of publishing them. Those users can make as many as five edits during that time frame, according to Twitter. The new tweet will show that it has been edited.

Twitter users will be able to see that the content has been edited by clicking on the tweets to view old versions, Twitter said.

Twitter Blue, which launched in the U.S. about a year ago, lets users test out new features before Twitter users that use the platform for free are able to try them.

The price of a Twitter Blue subscription was $2.99 when it launched in the U.S. It climbed to $4.99 over the summer.

Twitter said in April it was developing an edit function after

Tesla Inc.

Chief Executive

Elon Musk

polled his 108 million followers on whether they wanted the option to edit tweets after they were posted.

Twitter has been engaged in a blockbuster takeover deal for months with Mr. Musk, who agreed to buy the social-media company for $44 billion. Mr. Musk gave notice in July that he wanted out of the deal, saying that Twitter hadn’t given him adequate information regarding spam and fake accounts on the platform. Twitter, in turn, sued him to enforce the deal at the agreed-upon terms.

Earlier this week, Mr. Musk offered to close his acquisition of Twitter on the original deal terms. 

As of Thursday, those representing Mr. Musk and Twitter were grappling over deal terms that would allow Mr. Musk to complete the purchase, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the matter.

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