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Twitter's New Video Editing Tool & The Stolen Content Problem
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Twitter's head of product Nikita Bear announced a new in-app video creation suite — vertical recorder, text overlays, auto-captions, green screen — framed as a move to encourage original content creation. The crew is unconvinced. Andrew notes the irony that the tool launched iOS-only in 2026, years after competitors. Marques argues the real problem is structural: stolen TikTok videos dominate Twitter's short-form feed, and a native editor doesn't stop a bad actor from importing someone else's video. His proposed solution — ban watermarked stolen content from monetization — mirrors what Instagram and YouTube have already done with TikTok watermarks. Ellis raises the DMCA angle: platforms must make a 'good faith effort' to remove copyrighted content for legal protection, and Twitter's laissez-faire approach likely doesn't qualify. Andrew uses a Billy Madison pickle-racing analogy to describe the randomness of short-form content performance across platforms.
Twitter launched an in-app vertical video editor with text overlays, auto-captions, and green screen effects — but only on iOS. The real problem is that stolen TikTok content dominates Twitter video, and giving people a native editor doesn't solve that. Marques argues penalizing stolen content by barring it from monetization is the only lever that would actually work.
Twitter's new in-app vertical video editing tool launched exclusively on iOS, with Android support still pending.
iOS 27 introduces two new developer tools — entity schemas (index cards that tell Siri what type of content something is) and intent schemas (a list of actions Siri is permitted to take inside an app). Until the official fall release, Apple's Xcode beta doesn't allow developers to ship these capabilities, meaning every Siri demo and review right now only shows Apple's own apps working. Third-party support, including from Google, is the make-or-break variable.
