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You Know Twitter’s “Favorite” Button? It Could Have Been Called “Thanks.”
- andysinclair 14y agoMaybe I use the favorite button differently/wrong but I always use it as kind of like a "read it later" button. I store tweets there that contain links/comments for me to refer back to later - I've never considered it being used as a "Like" button.
- darkstalker 14y agoThis. The word "favourite" was usually used interchangeably as "bookmark" in browsers. A concept of something you want to save and read later.
- magoon 14y agoThere be treasure in Favorites, but nobody explores. I favorite funny.
- Afal 14y agoFavourite is one of those weird features on twitter I rarely use. I suppose the idea is to use it like a "like" or "+1" button but I find that "favourite" is too strong a word. There's been plenty of tweets I've seen where I think "this is a good tweet but I don't like it enough to RT it". I mean I liked the tweet but I'd never say it's amongst my favourite tweets.
- Jgrubb 14y agoNow I'm curious, does Twitter use the British spelling of the word over there?
- dredge 14y agoThey do not. There's only one "English" language option.
- timrobinson 14y agoNo. They use 'favorite' consistently throughout the website.
- kmfrk 14y agoWe will never really know what the button reflects. I use it to save tweets, and I shudder at what people might think of me, were I to run for political office, since there are tweets from all over the political spectrum. Some think it's a +1/agree button, others a thank-you button, and so on.