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11 Twitter is replacing favourite with heart
And with that royally messed up move, Twitter is changing the meaning of everything you ever favourited. Favourites used to serve as a lot of thing.
The secret of the favourite lay in its ambiguity: a favourite is a bookmark, an acknowledgment, a thanks, and of course a favourite.
A heart is a heart. It means you somehow like the tweet and a favourite need not imply that because it was a star; it was akin to starring a tweet.
If this was a new thing, it would be great, but looking over your old tweets whose meanings have now changed (dramatically), ask yourself, would you have hearted that?
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Published on Wednesday, 4th November 2015.