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Twitter Blue, the company s first subscription offering, is rolling out now in Australia and Canada, where paying customers can finally undo tweets. Yes, that s right, the microblogging platform is making it easier to revise or remove a message before it goes live.
Made a typo? Forgot to tag someone? Decide a total rewrite is in order? With Undo Tweet, you have up to 30 seconds to cancel a post before it hits your timeline. As an alternative, aubscribers can save time and energy by simply previewing what the tweet will look like before sending it. We ve heard from the people that use Twitter a lot … that we don t always build power features that meet their needs, product managers Sara Beykpour and Smita Mittal Gupta wrote in a blog announcement. We took this feedback to heart, and are developing and iterating upon a solution that will give the people who use Twitter the most what they are looking for: access to exclusive features and perks that will take t
Well, Twitter has decided: $4.49 per month.
Being able to undo a tweet is one of three new functions available on Twitter Blue, a paid subscription service launched today by the social media heavyweight.
With Undo Tweet, users can set a customisable timer of up to 30 seconds to click Undo before the tweet, reply, or thread posts to their timeline. (Supplied)
As reported by 9news.com.au two weeks ago, Twitter was planning a subscriber-based model, and Twitter Blue has now been rolled out in two test markets, Australia and Canada, with the company eager to monitor feedback and uptake.
In what Twitter describes as its first iteration of Twitter Blue , subscribers can undo sent tweets, bookmark tweets and read tweet threads more easily.