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Same 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

by dsjoerg 11y ago

Same 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 ago
This 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.)