How to Sign Up for Twitter Blue to Edit Tweets & Test New Features

Learn how to sign up for Twitter Blue and enjoy premium benefits not available to normal users.

Twitter is a social media website that allows users to post 280-character messages, called tweets, which are publicly available for viewing. Users can also follow other users and receive updates from them in their feeds.

The Twitter service can be accessed on the web or by using one of several mobile devices and desktop applications. The service has been free all these years and still is, however, in June 2021, Twitter announced a premium subscription service called Twitter Blue.

Twitter Blue has several benefits and is mostly useful to users who are on Twitter to find and follow new stories.

Twitter Blue Features

You need to Sign Up for Twitter Blue before you can enjoy the following benefits:

1. Edit Tweets

In the past, it was impossible to edit a tweet after it must have been sent, but now, with a Twitter Blue subscription, you now have the freedom to edit your tweets up to 5 times within 30 minutes of sending them.

2. Cancel Sent Tweets

Previously, if you sent a tweet and immediately change your mind, all you could do was just regret it as there was no way to undo a sent tweet. But right now, with Twitter Blue, those worries are over as you can now undo a sent tweet immediately after sending them.

3. Enjoy The “Top Article” Feature Without Ads

Twitter is home to lots of news and top stories and lots of people have made it their go-to source for the latest news and happenings around the world. Most times though, they will have to scroll through many irrelevant news and tweets in search of that particular top story everyone is talking about. Alas, with a Twitter Blue account, you now get the opportunity to see the top stories first on your timeline and read them without ads.

4. Test Out New Features

Other than being able to edit your tweet, this is perhaps the most exciting benefit of being a Twitter Blue subscriber. With a Twitter premium account, you can test out new features that are still in the pipeline even before they are released to the general public. You can use this feature by going over to Twitter Blue’s Labs page, and then turning on “experimental feature”.

How to Sign Up for Twitter Blue

Becoming a Twitter Blue subscriber will cost you $4.99 per month, but of course, if you decide you are no longer interested in enjoying these benefits, you can cancel at any time. You can sign up for this service either through a mobile device or on your computer. Follow the steps below to sign up.

1. Log in to your Twitter account. If you don’t have one, sign up.

2. Tap your profile picture if you are signed in with the app. On the desktop, click More in the left sidebar.

3. Select Twitter Blue

4. Select Subscribe for $4.99/month

5. Enter your payment information. You can also pay with your Google Play account or your Apple ID.

Wrapping up

After several pleas from Twitter users, urging the tech giant to introduce a “tweet edit” feature, they finally did, however, as a premium service; Twitter Blue. This article showed you how to sign up for Twitter Blue, while also introducing you to its several other benefits.