{"id":5488,"date":"2015-11-03T19:59:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T19:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2015-11-03T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:01:34","slug":"twitter-change-favourites-and-stars-to-likes-and-hearts-this-wont-end-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sl.governormarley.com\/?p=5488","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Change Favourites And Stars To Likes And Hearts, This Won’t End Well!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twitter, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to change Favourites, which had a star icon, to Likes, which have a heart icon.\u00a0 By Akarshan Kumar, Product Manager, announced the change on the Twitter blog;\u00a0Hearts on Twitter<\/a>. The blog explained Twitter’s reasoning for the change :<\/p>\n

We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts!<\/em><\/p>\n

We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we\u2019ll be calling them likes. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

The heart, in contrast, is a universal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones. The heart is more expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people. And in our tests, we found that people loved it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The reaction on Twitter, hasn’t exactly been sharing that love. I’m more than a tad bemused as to how anybody could find a star confusing, a star is a pretty universal symbol too whilst being less irksome and patronising than a heart.<\/p>\n

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On a serious note, James Ball, special correspondent of Buzzfeed Uk, Tweets :<\/p>\n

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Favoriting an article about how 30 people died to read later looked faintly odd with a star, but downright evil with a heart.<\/p>\n

\u2014 James Ball (@jamesrbuk) November 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n