The like-button was the "favorite" button, they only changed it trying to imitate Facebook in 2015. Your favorites (as in your browser) were your tweets you lik

The like-button was the "favorite" button, they only changed it trying to imitate Facebook in 2015. Your favorites (as in your browser) were your tweets you liked to store because you enjoyed them. So no, the misuse doesn't come from the people but the forced/intended change by the devs.