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When you favorite a tweet, you mostly do so for your own consumption. It is a way for you to tell yourself that this tweet is something you want to get back
by sowbug 11y ago
When you favorite a tweet, you mostly do so for your
own consumption. It is a way for you to tell yourself
that this tweet is something you want to get back to,
or remember for later use.
That sure ain't how I use it. Two reasons. (1) Favorites are public. (2) I don't need to get back to a tweet or remember it for later use; they're short, so I remember them in my brain.
I saw the article was much longer, but the author lost me at that point.
- tracker1 11y agoMost of my tweets are things I find interesting, that I often look back to. If it's interesting to me, I'll retweet. That's just me though, and I don't GAFF if it's public.
- delecti 11y ago"Favorite" sounds like a bookmark, but it behaved like a Facebook "like". But the fact that its name sounded like a bookmark means lots of people used it that way anyway.
- mbillie1 11y agoGiven that one of the things you can easily do with Favorites is review a list of them, I think it's perfectly reasonable to say it behaved like a bookmark. I certainly used it for this purpose.
- delecti 11y agoMost bookmarks don't inform the site that you've bookmarked it, or let that site keep a very public counter of the number of bookmarks to it, or keep a public record of your bookmarks (delicious(however it was punctuated) not withstanding). It actually behaves very much like Tumblr's "Like" functionality in all of those regards. I agree, it acted at least a little like a bookmark, but not more than it acted like a "like".
- dsjoerg 11y agoSame here. Who is this Thomas Baekdal to tell me what I mean what I favorite a tweet?! Maybe that's why he does it, but how does he know about me? I favorite a tweet to tell the tweeter that I liked what they said. I know they're gonna get an email saying I favorited their tweet. I've totally forgotten that someone could use favoriting as a bookmarking system; I'm too busy to go back and look at lists of bookmarked tweets.
- to3m 11y agoThis does seem to divide people. My own instant response to the favourite system was that it was obviously a means of expressing approval, without bombarding your followers' timelines with other people's stuff. "This tweet is a favourite of mine" = "I like this tweet". Eventually somebody favourited one of my tweets and I got an email telling me they'd done it, which just reinforced this idea for me. Then after about 4 years somebody pointed out that it actually stored your favourites. And that meant you could use them as a kind of bookmark. Well! Who'd have thought? (I don't use Internet Explorer, which is my excuse for not spotting the favourite = bookmark connection.)