RT&#x27;ing and quoting work better. That&#x27;s about it.<p>Things Twitter <i>could</i> be doing, besides your excellent suggestion of reopening the API:<p>-Self-deleting tweets, for the Snapchat kids.<p>-Better threading on conversations. Anything more than 2 people and it&#x27;s a mess.<p>-Thumbnails for any URL. Right now if you plop the URL of an image in, it just shows as a line of text.<p>-Twitter is often used as RSS, so why not have a Google Reader-type viewer?<p>-More transparency on bans and deverification.<p>-Fix search. Sometimes its performance is embarrassing.