Twitter Floats Potential Paid Features Including ‘Undo’ Button, Journalist Badges

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Twitter has floated a number of potential new features in a survey asking users what they would be interested in with a paid subscription to the site.

Obtained by Matt Navarra, an industry commentator, the survey — which asks users for their opinion on potential paid features — includes such possibilities as an “Undo send,” which would give a “30 seconds window for you to recall/withdraw a Tweet before anyone can see it,” and badges, which would allow journalists to “have a badge showing the magazines they write for.”

Other potential features — many of which appear to be made for business — include advanced analytics, longer and higher definition video uploads, custom interface colors, auto tweet responses, designated account user roles, custom stickers and hashtags, and the ability to use the platform for recruiting.

? Here’s a list of features Twitter may be considering for its paid / subscription service

Which would you be willing to pay for? pic.twitter.com/w8vYumrpx3

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 31, 2020

Here’s a few more… pic.twitter.com/PFl2OkhjH2

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 31, 2020

Twitter is also asking users if they’d be willing to pay to see NO ads on social media…

h/t @WFBrother pic.twitter.com/YHvKDDTHLh

— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 31, 2020

Twitter confirmed the authenticity of the screenshots in an email to Mediaite.

In a Q2 letter to shareholders, Twitter revealed it was “in the early stages of exploring additional potential revenue product opportunities to complement our advertising business.”

“These may include subscriptions and other approaches, and although our exploration is very early and we do not expect any revenue attributable to these opportunities in 2020, you may see tests or hear us talk more about them as our work progresses,” the company declared.

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