Twitter launches Blue subscription service, offering ad-free news and an undo button

(Pocket-lint) - Twitter has unveiled caller features for its subscription service, Twitter Blue, and for each those users who person been screaming for an edit button, it would look you are successful luck, to an extent.

Twitter Blue's astir talked astir caller diagnostic is the undo button. This lets you callback a tweet earlier it is sent and gives you 60 seconds to bash so. Yeah, it's not rather an edit button, but we tin ideate it volition prevention a batch of power-users the occupation of an embarrassing typo.

Other features see bookmarks folders, themes for your twitter app and app icon, a scholar mode for tweet-threads and a Labs programme that volition let you to effort caller Twitter features earlier they rotation retired to everyone else.

The work was initially made disposable connected iOS lone successful Canada and Australia, but arsenic of close present it is rolling retired to Android and web users successful the US and New Zealand too. It costs $2.99 per period wherever available, and determination has been nary notation of the UK conscionable yet.

Another basal retired diagnostic unveiled arsenic portion of the enlargement is entree to ad-free articles from participating websites. Twitter says it has much than 300 US based sites enrolled successful the program, including BuzzFeed, The Washington Post and The Hollywood Reporter.

Twitter Blue volition stock a information of the gross from the subscription with these websites. Unfortunately, the ad-free articles are exclusive to iOS initially, and there's nary connection connected erstwhile they should get connected Android devices.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 10 November 2021.