Twitter Inc. said today that the editing feature that people have been screaming out for forever is coming to the platform, but not for everyone right now.

The company said it will be available only to Twitter Blue subscribers in one not-yet-decided country, coming sometime at the end of this month. Why it has taken so long, no one is too sure about, although just about all of Twitter’s users, now at about 237 million, have been asking for years for some way to correct their typos and sometimes terrible grammar.

“Edit Tweet is being tested by our team internally,” Twitter said in a press release today. “The test will then be initially expanded to Twitter Blue subscribers in the coming weeks. Given that this is our most requested feature to date, we wanted to both update you on our progress and give you a heads up that, even if you’re not in a test group, everyone will still be able to see if a Tweet has been edited.”

One of the things people won’t be able to do is post something on a drunken night that will bring torrents of shame to them, and the next morning log back in and change the wording. Twitter said that the post can be edited numerous times but only within a 30-minute period. There will be an icon to show it has been edited, as well as a timestamp and a label. Twitter said the reason for this was to protect the “integrity of the conversation and create a publicly accessible record of what was said.”

This greatly needed feature is not rolling out to everyone at first so Twitter staff can see how people might misuse it and to see if there are any other issues. “You can never be too careful,” Twitter said, though it’s not as if editing features on social media applications are anything new. Twitter explained that it will study how people engage with each other when they start editing their posts.

It seems that there haven’t been too many problems with other social media companies and their editing features, such as Facebook Inc. Still, Twitter executives have never been too keen on following in its footsteps. In 2020, when former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey was at the helm, he said an edit button would “never” happen.

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