Wanting on the stats, it doesn’t appear to be that’s the case.

In keeping with the most recent insights from Sensor Tower, Twitter hasn’t seen a significant spike in income consumption, at the very least primarily based on the general app rating information.

As you may see on this chart, following the launch of tweet enhancing in Twitter Blue to customers in Australia, Canada and New Zealand on October 4th, there was a little bit of a soar, with Twitter rising up the app income ranks barely in every area.

Twitter then launched tweet enhancing to US-based Blue subscribers on October sixth, which additionally resulted in a rating enhance, primarily based on Sensor Tower’s highest-grossing apps rankings.

The largest enhance, nevertheless, got here on Sunday October ninth, the place, as you may see, Twitter went up a number of rating spots within the US, which does level to a reasonably important shift in customers paying cash within the app. However since then, it’s largely regressed to the imply as soon as once more, which might counsel that the preliminary curiosity in tweet enhancing hasn’t pushed any main uptick in Twitter Blue adoption.

Twitter appeared pretty assured that it could, even elevating the worth of Twitter Blue again in July, seemingly in preparation for the arrival of tweet enhancing, which, once more, on condition that it has been essentially the most requested social platform replace, arguably ever, ought to have pushed extra curiosity in its subscription providing.

And it might be a much bigger driver than this information suggests – Sensor Tower’s insights listed here are primarily based on comparative app rankings, when it comes to income consumption, so Twitter would possibly even have generated quite a lot of sign-ups, driving these general rating shifts, which is able to then proceed to see it spike each month, as customers renew.

However the early buzz does appear to have died down, and it’ll be fascinating to see if customers do see ongoing worth in tweet enhancing – which provides you half-hour to revise your tweet, and 5 edits inside that point interval.

Or, alternatively, you might simply delete the tweet and begin once more, as we’ve all carried out perpetually anyway.

In some methods, it feels just like the hype round tweet enhancing has been overblown, due solely to Twitter’s reluctance so as to add it in. Like, there’s no actual, main influence of including an enhancing choice – each different social media platform has supplied edit instruments for years, with no main points or issues. However Twitter’s resistance to offering such has made it a much bigger deal than it in all probability is, simply because it wasn’t there, and making minor typos in tweets is annoying.

Is it annoying sufficient, nevertheless, to pay for tweet enhancing? Most likely not, as a result of we’ve all adjusted by now, everybody already has a course of for checking and deleting tweets as you go. Positive, it’d be helpful to have the ability to repair up that error you catch in your tweet at a later stage (usually hours later, which might be outdoors the scope of the present tweet enhancing choice anyway). However is it actually that huge a deal?

I think it’s in all probability not, and now that we’ve entry to tweet enhancing, I think most individuals have already misplaced curiosity, because it’s actually not the revolutionary replace that years of debate and campaigning had constructed it as much as be.

However possibly this assumption is wrong – possibly hundreds of thousands extra persons are signing up for Twitter Blue consequently, bringing in a complete new income stream for the app.

The stats, once more, don’t seem to mirror that, and I did ask Twitter for official numbers on take-up for the reason that announcement, which it declined to supply.

There have additionally been some fascinating makes use of of tweet enhancing by manufacturers, which might spark new utilization traits within the app.

However general, it feels just like the tweet enhancing hype was principally simply that, and in actuality, most individuals don’t actually have quite a lot of curiosity within the choice – or at the very least, in paying for such.

It’ll be fascinating to see, then, how Twitter Blue modifications if/when Elon Musk ultimately takes over on the app.

Musk has been pretty important of Twitter Blue as a product, noting that it must be cheaper, ought to provide verification of some type inside the package deal, ‘and no advertisements’ if customers are keen to pay to make use of the app. One in every of Musk’s confidantes, investor Jason Calacanis, additionally described Twitter Blue as ‘an insane piece of shit’ in textual content exchanges with Musk, noting that:

“These dipshits spent a yr on Twitter Blue to offer individuals precisely… Nothing they need!”

Calacanis, it’s price noting, has signed up for Twitter Blue since making these statements, and has praised tweet enhancing particularly.

Whether or not these views nonetheless mirror Musk’s views or not stays to be seen, however Musk might look to make main modifications to the Twitter Blue providing both means, whereas he’s additionally advocated for enhancing to be made extra broadly accessible within the app.

That might be a greater method, in making it accessible to all customers – which Twitter says will occur at some stage both means – however actually, what the preliminary response, suggests, for my part, is that tweet enhancing is just not that huge of a deal, and by no means was.

It simply turned one due to Twitter’s refusal so as to add it, however now that it’s right here, it’s simply one other factor.