Twitter's new Undo Tweet feature shouldn't be behind a paywall – Quartz

For a few bucks a month, you can pay for a more perfect Twitter.Twitter Blue, the company’s new premium subscription product, does not change the free experience on Twitter but rather places new features behind a velvet rope for its new VIPs. The service, which has been available in Australia and Canada since June, was released in the US and New Zealand on Tues. (Nov. 9).Most of the new features are aesthetic options for the site: marginal improvements with a little bit of utility and customization that power users will appreciate.But one new feature has no business being locked away from the masses. The Undo Tweet button, a post-delaying feature for a quick recant of an impulsive tweet, should be standard for the trigger-happy Twitterati. For everyone’s sake.What do you get with Twitter Blue?Twitter Blue offers cosmetic fixes allowing users to customize the app icon color (mine is now black), the “theme” colors on the app, and the navigation bar (e.g. the explore, notifications, and bookmarks tabs).TwitterIt also incorporates two facets of Scroll, the news subscription service that Twitter bought in May. Subscribers on iOS and desktop get ad-free versions of certain news websites as part of a revenue-sharing agreement…
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