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"no one wants to 'bookmark' tweets" What evidence supports this claim ? I disagree on a personal level. I used "favorites" almost exclusively to bookmark twee

• diminish 11y ago
  > "no one wants to 'bookmark' tweets" that rings alarm bells of contradiction in my mind; i always use the favorite to bookmark tweets - and i notice a lot of my followers do the same. of course i want to bookmark them for reading later.
  • prawn 11y ago
    And that action generally notifies the author who is then not sure whether you're showing appreciation or just checking link-bait. I used to star to read later. I now open the link into a browser and get to it later on. And I use the star a lot less than I would hit the heart on Instagram - and Twitter know that's a serious problem for them.
    • diminish 11y ago
      I agree. Indeed there are 2 separate needs; bookmarking as a read later for tweets containing links (for more advanced users ) and liking for applauding for the crowd.. "for the crowd" will always win for "quarterly" reasons.. Now
• oaktowner 11y ago
  Yes, that sounds like hyperbole. People do want to bookmark tweets. But Twitter reasoned (probably correctly) that people "like" a lot more tweets than they bookmark. Naturally, Twitter likes the idea of visible engagement, so they are encouraging people to do the lighterweight thing. What's interesting is that I had already found my own behavior changing. For years I used 'favoriting' as bookmarking...but in the last year or so, I've changed and was already using it as a show of appreciation. I wonder if many other people were doing the same thing already.