Later this month, Twitter will expand access to the Edit Tweet button for Twitter Blue subscribers (Image: Getty Images)

Twitter is finally testing its shiny new edit button, but it will be available only to paying subscribers in the coming weeks.

“That’s right. Editorial Tweets are tested internally by our team,” the company confirmed in a blog post today.

“The test will be expanded to Twitter Blue subscribers first in the coming weeks.”

You can see if a Tweet has been edited, even if you’re not in the test group.

This new feature will allow users to modify Tweets after they have been published.

Currently, Tweets can be edited “multiple times” within 30 minutes of posting. This is enough time to fix typos or add missing tags.

Edited Tweets are displayed with an icon, timestamp, and label so readers can clearly see that the original Tweet was edited. Tapping the tag takes viewers to the Tweet’s edit history. This includes historical versions of Tweets.

The biggest concern critics point out about the editing feature itself is that it can be used to edit a viral tweet to say something completely different than the original tweet.

Time limits and version history are expected to “protect the integrity of the conversation,” so people can’t just edit a tweet after it goes viral, for example.

Later this month, Twitter will expand access to the Edit Tweet button for Twitter Blue subscribers.

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Twitter finally tests its shiny new edit button (Image: Twitter)

As part of the subscription, Twitter Blue users get early access to features. The company says the trial will initially be localized to one country and will expand over time.

Twitter also said it’s monitoring how the feature affects the way people read, write and interact with tweets.

In April, Twitter confirmed that it was working on a long-awaited editing feature that users have been waiting for years.

A month later, thanks to technology researcher Jane Manchun Wong, I was able to dig into the company’s code and find the hidden functionality.

So far, it looks like Wong was right to accept the change to the tweet 30 minutes after it was posted using the edit button.