What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately? The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark

What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately? The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark button in my opinion. What's missing is that can't see who favorited a tweet. In our (web-based) client we implemented this missing funcionality, renamed the button to "Like" and it works pretty well, it's being used a lot. I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if they wanted. No, it's not returned unfortunately.