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"Like" was ruined when Twitter made it republish tweets, making it practically identical to retweet. It had been useful to mark posts for later review. Without
by ctdonath 8y ago
"Like" was ruined when Twitter made it republish tweets, making it practically identical to retweet. It had been useful to mark posts for later review. Without it at all, there will be no way to "save" a tweet.
- orasis 8y agoYou can now turn off likes-as-retweets in your timeline.
- fosco 8y agoI do not have twitter but based on this HN discussion here of the article it seems a lot of people are not aware of this functionality. I would say they have poorly advertised their settings and functionality which I believe is deliberate to obfuscate privacy settings as well.
- conscion 8y agoThere's an option to bookmark tweets. They then show up in your bookmarks section. https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2018/an-easier-way-to-save-and-share-tweets.html https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2018/...
- ihuman 8y agoWasn't "Like" originally bookmark? Have we gone full circle? Edit: I was thinking of favorites. I used favorites as bookmarks, so I got it mixed up.
- danso 8y agoBookmark has a different connotation. Also, bookmarks, unlike Likes, aren't public.
- SyneRyder 8y agoYou were essentially correct - the Favorite button in third party apps got rewired to the Like heart button. Favorites were previously only visible to yourself, the person whose tweet you favorite, or anyone who specifically went looking for your list of Favorite tweets. (I think making Favorites/Likes act like retweets was a terrible idea - thankfully I never saw them in third-party apps, but it made the website a horrible experience when you see what the people you follow were liking.)