Last week, the subscription service “Premium” Twitter made its debut in the United States. Twitter Blue is a monthly subscription $ 3 customers who purchase access to additional features, such as undo button and advertising-free news articles.
For now, Twitter Blue comes with a host of additional features are quite limited which is designed for people who spend most of the time for the service. According to Twitter’s Sara Beukpour, this group includes the “old Twitter users who verified” and “Lovers News” and “super tweeter” others. In other words: 25 percent of the Twitter user base that sends 97 percent of all tweets.
“I really bet a lot of them,” said Beykpour during a briefing with a group of technology journalists last week. Of course I immediately signed up.
And after a little more than a week with Twitter Blue, I’m not sure it’s worth $ 3 a month for most people. Its features are mostly useful, but frustrating that not all work the same way in the application and the website Twitter. But there is a feature that no doubt, and I am interested in what might happen next to “Premium Twitter.” For now, here’s how to see $ 3 buys you.
Tweet ‘Undo’
Of all the features in Twitter Blue, the “Undo” has been getting the most hype. Twitter will likely never give us the actual edit button, so this may be the closest we get. And if you are prone to typos or tweet-and-then – instantly regret, this feature alone may be worth it to subscribe. I say probably because the “undo” can also be very confusing, and does not always work as you would expect.
Should work quite like features “undo send” Gmail. Once you hit “Send,” you will have a few seconds when you can see the tweet that you just wrote, but has not actually published. If you change your mind for any reason, you can press the “Undo,” which takes you back to Tweet on the Compose screen. Twitter gives you the ability to set how long this window – can range from 5 seconds to 60 seconds of full – and you can always choose to send it before the window runs out with an extra click.
But the destruction of the tweet does not always work the same way across applications and websites Twitter. On Twitter application, you can use the “Undo” for almost all kinds of Tweet: Tweet native (tweet sent from the main main window), replies, thread, quote tweets and polling. Basically, you can “undo” almost anything you tweet, anywhere in the application. But that’s not the case at twitter.com, where the undo function only works with the original tweet and reply, but not with quote tweet or thread. Unless you exclusively tweet from your mobile phone, this means you have to remember where you can edit the tweet could not be benefited and which did not. Tweet typo-ridden can be canceled, but the quote can not tweet suggested.
There is also the fact that it can take several steps to completely cancel the tweet. In the Twitter app, the default setting is the first thing you see as you destroy is your Tweet Tweet button and press the “undo”. This gives you plenty of time to read it again, even if you have a “window” that is relatively short. But on the Twitter website, you can simply cancel by seeking dialogue “View Tweets” at the bottom of the page and then navigate to the page with your Tweets and undo button.
Sometimes, “View Tweets” does not appear at all, and the only way to access the “undo” is navigate to your profile and search tweets pending on your timeline. This is not just an extra step that is confusing, but it also makes it more difficult to utilize the undo button at all. Is it still useful to have? I guess, but such uncertainty gives me more anxiety than not have it at all.
