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I never understood the "bookmarking" feature that was favoriting. Hearts/likes/kudos are pretty universally accepted as a way of showing support without having

I never understood the "bookmarking" feature that was favoriting. Hearts/likes/kudos are pretty universally accepted as a way of showing support without having to engage with a comment/response. This was long overdo IMO.

k__ 11y ago
Same here. I often thought "This is a good tweet... but why should I favorite something on Twitter?!"
- cdcarter 11y ago
  I think the phrase "favorite" was to be read as "things that are my favorite" -- it was never used by the userbase as a bookmarking mechanism.
  - jimwalsh 11y ago
    I think assuming it wasn't used as a bookmarking mechanism is being a bit shortsighted. Myself and many others in my circles used it as a bookmarking tool as well as to show support of something someone said.
  - sp332 11y ago
    A study last year found a 3:1 ratio of people liking vs bookmarking. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.pdf http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.p... [PDF]
- atomi 11y ago
  I use favs/likes with IFTTT to save twitter links to other services.
- leftnode 11y ago
  It contains an interesting link you would want to read later? Pinboard can import favorited tweets and automatically store them as unread bookmarks, for example.
  - k__ 11y ago
    Well, I got my own bookmarks for that :\
vox_mollis 11y ago
What, then, is your workflow for when you are reading through tweets, see someone you follow/respect post a url to an interesting article you'd like to read later? Or perhaps post a quote you'd like to use later? Copy/paste the url into another tab, then bookmark it? Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow.
- ThomPete 11y ago
  To be honest i click the article and instagram or pocket that instead of the tweet. I used favorite for things I liked.
- deleted 11y ago
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- sjs382 11y ago
  > Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow. So, you favorite it, read the article later and then unfavorite? If you don't unfavorite, how do you differentiate between a bunch of links int he past week that you may/may not have read? If I want to read something later, I add it to my "Read It Later" service of choice: Pocket.
  - smackfu 11y ago
    Practically, I haven't had a problem. I remember there was an article I wanted to read, I go to my list of favorited tweets, and I find it. Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about.
    - sjs382 11y ago
      > Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about. It used to be for me, too. Now I'm much more loose about marking something as read without reading it.
  - rorosaurus 11y ago
teaneedz 11y ago
The problem is that favoriting has historically been associated with bookmarking. It is never really taken in the literal sense of the word online. Hearts/Likes does not work in so many situations. I won't heart something that is negative, but would have fav'd it as a bookmark. Heart/likes is only a marketing solution to go after new users. It's not the power users tool.

k__ 11y ago

Same here. I often thought "This is a good tweet... but why should I favorite something on Twitter?!"

cdcarter 11y ago
I think the phrase "favorite" was to be read as "things that are my favorite" -- it was never used by the userbase as a bookmarking mechanism.
- jimwalsh 11y ago
  I think assuming it wasn't used as a bookmarking mechanism is being a bit shortsighted. Myself and many others in my circles used it as a bookmarking tool as well as to show support of something someone said.
- sp332 11y ago
  A study last year found a 3:1 ratio of people liking vs bookmarking. http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.pdf http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/pubs/icwsm2014-favouriting.p... [PDF]
atomi 11y ago
I use favs/likes with IFTTT to save twitter links to other services.
leftnode 11y ago
It contains an interesting link you would want to read later? Pinboard can import favorited tweets and automatically store them as unread bookmarks, for example.
- k__ 11y ago
  Well, I got my own bookmarks for that :\

vox_mollis 11y ago

What, then, is your workflow for when you are reading through tweets, see someone you follow/respect post a url to an interesting article you'd like to read later? Or perhaps post a quote you'd like to use later? Copy/paste the url into another tab, then bookmark it? Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow.

ThomPete 11y ago
To be honest i click the article and instagram or pocket that instead of the tweet. I used favorite for things I liked.
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sjs382 11y ago
> Favoriting tweets for later review is a substantially more convenient workflow. So, you favorite it, read the article later and then unfavorite? If you don't unfavorite, how do you differentiate between a bunch of links int he past week that you may/may not have read? If I want to read something later, I add it to my "Read It Later" service of choice: Pocket.
- smackfu 11y ago
  Practically, I haven't had a problem. I remember there was an article I wanted to read, I go to my list of favorited tweets, and I find it. Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about.
  - sjs382 11y ago
    > Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and feel bad about. It used to be for me, too. Now I'm much more loose about marking something as read without reading it.
- rorosaurus 11y ago

teaneedz 11y ago

The problem is that favoriting has historically been associated with bookmarking. It is never really taken in the literal sense of the word online. Hearts/Likes does not work in so many situations. I won't heart something that is negative, but would have fav'd it as a bookmark. Heart/likes is only a marketing solution to go after new users. It's not the power users tool.