‘Twitter Blue’ premium service reportedly has ‘Undo Tweets’ feature, and it’s not exactly the edit button that people want

One of the things that make most social media platforms immediately popular is their free-to-use model, but Twitter is reportedly going to try something different. A premium (a.k.a. paid) service called “Twitter Blue” has appeared in the wild, and it might exclusively offer the closest thing to an edit button Twitter users have been asking for years.

Twitter appears to be working on an undo button

The social networking service has been rumored to be considering a subscription-based version of its platform for some time now, and it appears that it is starting to materialize. Well-known app researcher Jane Manchun Wong shared some evidence recently that give people more idea on the possible features that could be introduced as part of Twitter’s premium service called Twitter.

One that would likely get most people’s attention is a supposed undo button that would let users take back a tweet they just posted without necessarily deleting it. In a preview Wong provided, the researcher noted that Twitter is developing a timer for undoing a tweet. Once used, it would let users edit their post before hitting the Tweet button again.

It then appears that the undo button would be the closest feature to address people’s long-running request of being able to edit their tweet. Unlike in other social media platforms, though, it seems that the ability to undo a tweet will not be available after a certain period.

In that sense, the reported undo button for a paid Twitter service is still not exactly the edit option people have been asking from Twitter. Some users argued that it does not have much difference from simply deleting a tweet and then reposting it. While others argue that Twitter’s “retweet” function may be making the edit option a little complicated to implement, there are suggestions that this could be resolved by simply putting an edit history or a timestamp when changes are made.

Twitter Blue may require a $2.99 monthly fee

Wong also reported that Twitter is planning on having different tiers of premium services, and one of them could be priced at $2.99 per month. It is unclear whether that pricing is for the lower of the higher-priced plan. But the latter is most likely getting more exclusive features, including a “clutter-free” feed.

There were also hints at a new “Collections” feature in the works that could be part of the Twitter Blue features. It could be added within the existing Bookmarks tab and would allow users to organize them into folders of the same categories.

Twitter has yet to officially announce plans at launching premium plans. But Bloomberg reported last February that the social media platform had been finding ways to generate revenue without relying too much on ads, and a subscription-based service was purportedly one of the ideas being considered.

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