If @twitter really wants to shake things up, it should allow users to store multimedia on twitter

The ability to save the links of pictures, videos and gifs in an a specific place on the service might be the killer feature Twitter has been searching for

Twitter should focus enhancing the app for its core users

By now, we’re accustomed to the cycle. Step 1, Twitter announces some feature that chips away at why power users love the app. This time,the good people at Twitter have announced that they might increase Twitter’s character limit by roughly 7,000%. For people who appreciate Twitter’s forced brevity as an essential part of the medium, it sounds like a disaster. It’s certainly the end of being able to call twitter a micro-blogging service.

Step 2 is that Twitter users joke on Twitter… on Twitter (my favorite step).

Step 3 is that people tell us why Twitter isn’t actually being that awful (you will likely have to click to see people’s lengthier posts) to us and try to walk everyone back from the ledge in a totally non-condescending way.

Step 4 is an acceptance period prolonged by the fact that you saw a media outlet use the word “nontroversy”.

These four steps seem to repeat in perpetuity as Twitter continues to focus on bringing new users in from the outside. At this pace, will be written about a golden age before Twitter went public and expanded itself to death. But let’s imagine a world in which Twitter focuses on improving the user experience for hardcore users.

Twitter would be awesome if it had a gif, picture, video drawer

I wish I could take full credit for this idea but i can’t. I saw it on my friend Dawn’s Twitter; however, I will expand on it. Twitter should allow you to store multimedia (i.e., gifs, videos, images) and browse it in a separate tab. This is a full and necessary embrace of meme culture. Currently your best bet for stashing multimedia on twitter is favoriting, sorry, liking it. Later, when you want to retrieve your image, you have to sift through a bulky vertical timeline stuffed with everything you’ve ever liked on the app. The result is that most people store their pictures and memes amongst all the pictures on their phone, or in a super nerdy folder on their desktop like me.

Having a multimedia drawer on Twitter would improve the user experience in a number of meaningful ways:

1. Users can have all of their Twitter-related media in one place. Whether utilizing Twitter for web, mobile, or a third-party app, a user will be able to access their library of multimedia wherever they are.
2. Folks would finally be able to save gifs! How much of an appreciated advancement this would be cannot be overstated. They are a linchpin of internet culture, yet they can be hard for some users to deal with, especially on Twitter.
3. With saved content available within Twitter, chances of users finding what they want to post goes increases, as does the ease of posting, overall. Users would love that.

This is good for Twitter because:

1. With more of their multimedia available, people will likely interact with their timelines more which is what Twitter really wants, right?
2. Saving multimedia in an organized way doesn’t involve users leaving the app anymore.
3. As far as I know, none of the other social media platforms have a meme drawer or a way to store gifs. Innovation!

Think about it Twitter. The people want a meme drawer. Well, that and the ability to quote tweets with pictures.