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hey what is the sky ISM kabhi HD here and Twitter is so important like it's a platform it's like YouTube it gives millions of people a voice I use Twitter all the time your favorite people probably use Twitter all the time it's like a cultural phenomenon if you think about it oh you're not perfect Twitter there are definitely things that I've mentioned that I would change about Twitter in the past in videos and in tweets so I can expand on those things and maybe you'll agree dear Twitter many of us would generally like to see things in chronological order now I know RSS is dead and it's a cool thing to do now to try to predict what the user wants to see and put it up at the top you know Facebook does it Instagram does everything's all out of order now Twitter is just so pure just like a straight-up timeline and Twitter is super time-sensitive probably the most time sensitive of any social media so that's part of the reason I use a third party Twitter app to guarantee that I read tweets in order as they happen it doesn't like seeing a one-day-old post right above a two-day-old post right above a 45 second old post so at least when I press that show less often button could you actually make it show that less often please dear Twitter stop hobbling third party app so for those who don't know Twitter has sort of a history of making it difficult to develop a good Twitter app there's something called a token limit which is essentially a sealing to how many people can use a certain Twitter app and once you reach that number of users the app becomes useless to new users you can't login it literally doesn't work so several apps I've used have fallen victim to this really all it takes is the app getting really popular it reaches that maximum number of users and instead and that's happened with stockin that's happened with Android apps Mac apps iOS apps it's just kind of a pain so if you're going to do this you would think Twitter oh they must be working really hard on their own stock Twitter app the first party Twitter app must be great again I don't think I've seen a good update to the Twitter for Mac app in months so Twitter either stop being so developer and user hostile at the same time by hobbling third party apps or make your first party apps way better or both dear Twitter bring back at replies like the way they were three or four months ago it was just better that way your Twitter let us edit tweets it is 2017 and we have a giant machine digging a tunnel under Los Angeles to build an actual Hyperloop but we still can add a tweet we have the Large Hadron Collider we found the god particle we still can edit tweet now look I know there's a lot of cases against editing tweets and I get them you know what if what if you post something really great and it gets a ton of retweets and then you edit it to something heinous and terrible if you tweet something nice at a celebrity and then they retweet it and you go edit your tweet to say something really mean and then everyone sees it maybe this guy's on to something what if you get a million retweets for a hilarious comment then a company pays you to edit the content of the tweet to essentially advertise on a million people's Twitter feeds then Twitter becomes oversaturated with sponsored tweets people get sick of it and Twitter loses all credibility you know what anything is possible so here is the case for editing tweets you post something on Twitter and within a little bit you notice it has a typo in it so you can edit the tweet within 60 seconds of posting it and any tweet that's been edited has a little indicator and Twitter will show the edit history of any edited tweet so you can click that little indicator it expands everyone can see it boom clean done so this solves pretty much any of the downsides that there may be to editing tweets you know people make typos they happen this is literally just to fix that the half-life of a tweet is really short like much shorter than a lot of other things on the internet and that's already really short so that means most of the activity happening on a tweet is happening within the first few minutes sometimes seconds that have been posted so deleting and rewriting a tweet sounds like it works great for maybe most tweets but the most time-sensitive ones where the most activity is happening really quick you know 45 seconds and 3000 retweets later you notice a word is misspelled do you delete that tweet like honestly do you delete it like that little edit button just for that would be so nice and look in case you still think tweet editing might be a bad thing let me introduce you to a couple other social networks that you may have heard of that also let you edit post Facebook there's an edit post button full time not just for typos so anyone can edit any post ever and if you share a post then someone edits it it will show up in your shared post reddit is actually a perfect example in the comments you have up to three minutes or until your comment gets three replies to edit that comment without getting an asterisk so you can edit a comment whenever but if it has engagement then it has an asterisk and everyone knows it's been edited Instagram you can edit everything caption tags whatever Google Plus same deal right here on YouTube you can literally edit YouTube videos to add a blur to a subject to correct something without deleting the video it saves that the same URL and the video is changed Vimeo you can literally replace entire video files at the same URL in Vimeo you can upload a completely different video with the same title and everything and it stays so editing tweets doesn't seem that insane anymore just saying I think you got this Twitter you got this so you have it at the end of the day I think it's pretty obvious that Twitter could do none of these things and they continue to make crazy decisions all the time but we all just keep using Twitter anyway I'm going to keep tweeting you can follow me if you want that's pretty obvious but these things would make us just so much happier on the Internet and that's never a bad thing that's pretty much it thank you for watching coffee has the next one please