What was so wrong with a favourite anyway?
Twitter threw something of a curveball out of the blue this afternoon when announcing that users of the social network would no longer be able to ‘favourite’ tweets.
That particular function has now been replaced by a ‘like’ system instead.
You can read the (not entirely convincing) reasons behind the change here, but the sudden dismissal of a response that allowed users to like, express empathy, highlight something to read for later or abruptly put an end to a conversation took Twitter users aback earlier today.
https://twitter.com/twitter/status/661558661131558915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Twitter themselves reckon that users loved the new system in their testing phase and maybe it will end up being welcomed over time.
Initially, however, being the *cough* welcoming and entirely devoid of cynicism place that it is *cough*, Twitter reacted to the new feature pretty much exactly as you’d expect.
A Good Heart These Days Is Hard To Fav.
— Colm Tobin (@colmtobin) November 3, 2015
But, but, the favourite was the best way to just bring rubbish Twitter exchanges to a quick, cordial end.
— Richard Chambers (@newschambers) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/laurenlaverne/status/661564830072102912
https://twitter.com/markhoppus/status/661564074212265989
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/661562315184152576
Twitter will be replacing the Favourite star with a heart, and the RT with a spleen.
— Ed Yong is not here (@edyong209) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/mrjohnbutler/status/661561122810634240
Our grandparents didn't storm the beaches of Normandy to see the twitter star become a heart.
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) November 3, 2015
They're still stars on good ol' Tweetdeck. Tweetdeck never lets you down.
— Adam Hurrey (@FootballCliches) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/FionnOnFire/status/661566629344481280
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