The point was exactly that YouTube, which had a simpler problem to solve at around the same time (or earlier) did it properly.
There do exist independent youtube clients (though not as many as Twitters's), but using the encoding they did, youtube has made it so that it is never going to be an issue, whereas for twitter it has already been a significant issue twice (that I'm aware of).
It's very easy to dismiss sound engineering in retrospect as luck or as "how could anyone have known".
There do exist independent youtube clients (though not as many as Twitters's), but using the encoding they did, youtube has made it so that it is never going to be an issue, whereas for twitter it has already been a significant issue twice (that I'm aware of).
It's very easy to dismiss sound engineering in retrospect as luck or as "how could anyone have known".