YouTube - What They Don't Tell You
B is for Bugs

"All code is guilty, until proven innocent." - Anonymous

My AtoZ theme this year is my YouTube journey with my new fiction channel, and all that I have learned - plus some free fiction - scroll down to the embedded vid for that.

Have I found any bugs in YouTube? Only one that really confused me.

I have, on occasion received an email telling me I have a comment on a video and then have not been able to find it in YouTube studio (the place where we upload our videos) or on the video in question.

In the back end I tried turning off filters and rearranging things, but nothing showed up.

Then I went to the video live of YouTube and rather than sorting the comments by "Top Comments", I sorted them by "Newest First". Low and behold, there were my missing comments. I have no idea why this might be, except for the fact that one of the missing comments was not complimentary and the other could have been interpreted as not being nice (even though it was), so I suspect algorithm shenanigans.

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay

There is, however, one really annoying bug I have discovered when sharing my videos, which might save people a little time.

When sharing from YouTube to Twitter, the tweet editor comes up partially filled in with content created from the title and URL of our video. This is all well and good, but it truncates the subject line of the vid, and we often want to add extra content to increase engagement with our tweets, so we have to change it.

There is, however, a bug in Twitter's front end when creating these tweets: on more than one function when creating a tweet, it reverts back to the originally created partial tweet losing all of our edits. This is very, very annoying!

This happens when:

Adding in ALT text for an image for the tweet.
Picking the time to schedule a Tweet

The solution is simple, but needs to be formed into a habit, so I always create a tweet in the same way:

Share from YouTube
Edit the tweet and add my own content
Copy the whole tweet into memory
Add the image to the tweet
Pick the time for the tweet to be scheduled
Paste the tweet back into the edit box
Hit the schedule button

Anyone else run into any YouTube or social media sharing bugs? Or what is your least favourite real world bug e.g. cockroach?

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About the AtoZ Challenge

The A to Z Challenge happens every April. Bloggers from all over the world come together to post every day in April, apart from Sundays, inspired by the letters of the alpha bet. A = April 1st etc. Some of us have themes, some of us don't. Click the image below for more info and links to other participants.

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Tales with Tasha

Each week we have a theme and so there will be something for all tastes.

🎤Micro stories as YouTube Shorts Monday - Thursday - for fun quick viewing
🕮A longer story every Friday - for story time, over coffee or before going to bed