Akin to favourties, they are used to show appreciation for a tweet. Your likes are visible on your profile too, so long as your profile is set to public under settings.
If a person's tweets are protected, any tweets of theirs that you liked won't appear in the Likes tab on your profile. To like a tweet, make sure you are logged into Twitter, then click or tap the new heart button, and it will turn red, confirming that you've liked the tweet.
You can like tweets in your feed, embedded elsewhere, on a user's profile page. To unlike a tweet, click or tap the heart once more, and then it will go from red to grey in order to confirm the action. We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, and we know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers. You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite. The company further said a heart is a unviersal symbol that "resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones.
Users also loved hearts on Periscope, so Twitter decided to adopt them. Twitter has another popular app, called Vine, which allows users to post and share quick video clips. It will also go live today for Vine's website and Android app. Check out Twitter's blog post and Help page for more information. Learn more Home Apps App news Twitter app news.
Why you can trust Pocket-lint. Writing by Elyse Betters. Originally published on 4 November Recommended for you. I've favorited more than 60, tweets over the years, and in that time I've come to appreciate how versatile that little button is. I use it as a kind of read receipt to acknowledge replies; I use it whenever a tweet makes me laugh out loud; I use it when someone criticizes me by name in the hopes that seeing it's one of my "favorite" tweets will confuse and upset them.
It often works! Today, a star is unborn. After testing hearts this summer , Twitter is now rolling them out across the user base. I'm told tests showed that people who had hearts enabled on their accounts used them more often, and I believe it: likes and hearts have become a kind of universal currency of the social web, from Facebook to Tumblr to Instagram. And there's probably some benefit to Twitter in having a standard icon of approval across its suite of apps — Vine previously used a smiley face, and Periscope debuted with hearts.
Now they'll all be the same, and perhaps a bit more comprehensible to all the new people Twitter hopes to lure in with Moments and other products. All that said, it's hard not to feel defeated by the sudden death of Twitter's star. For all its faults, the favorite was unique to Twitter, and part of what makes the service distinctive. Most people may never have understood the multivalent power of the fav, but those who did found it surprisingly elegant and powerful.
In this, the fav was a microcosm of Twitter itself: a bit of work up front, in exchange for a social experience as rich and surprising as anything in the world. That version of Twitter attracted many of its most loyal and influential users, but it hasn't been of much use to advertisers , and Wall Street has punished the company's stock accordingly. Returning CEO Jack Dorsey has promised a series of "bold moves" to reignite user growth — the company added just 4 million net active users last quarter — and dumbing down the fav lies somewhere on that roadmap.
A star is not a heart. A favorite is not a like. The newest mode of engagement on Twitter is a bit less versatile, a bit less powerful, a bit more compressed. Like Moments, its big bet on casual users, Twitter's likes are basic, in all senses of the word. I'm sure we'll get used to them in time. I'm less sure I'll ever really come to like them. You can say a lot with a heart. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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