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Even before Twitter's recent aggressive behavior towards developers I would have expected this to get shut down. If this became something widely used Twitter va

Even before Twitter's recent aggressive behavior towards developers I would have expected this to get shut down. If this became something widely used Twitter value to me would decline. The entire favorite feature would just start to be ignored by a majority of users.

ramayac 14y ago
I think the favorite feature should be a private thing, just something to save for later or remember, at least that's what I'm using it for.
joyeuse6701 14y ago
I agree, it's a social hack of sorts that he's using for advertisement, which is cool, but abuse of it would render favorites meaningless and it would become spam. However, I could see how if @pepsi wanted to favorite a tweet by @averagejoe because it said 'this new pepsi can is awesome!' it would seem legitimate enough and not spammy.
- vickytnz 14y ago
  Yeah, savvy companies are getting away from the annoying "RT every nice thing people say about my company" with 'fave it and then point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Hostgator does this well: http://twitter.com/hostgator/favorites http://twitter.com/hostgator/favorites
  - fudged71 14y ago
    I don't understand what you mean by "point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Looks to me like they're just favoriting positive feedback that is sent to them
  - ohashi 14y ago
    If you want to see both sides of that, I actually track positive and negative mentions and do some analytics too. Same company: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/1/hostgator/ http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/1/hostgator/
AznHisoka 14y ago
I don't think the feature itself would be ignored. His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself. It would however cause users to start ignoring Twitter messages/notifications. People are already ignoring responses from people they don't know, and it can get even worse if we think most people interacting with us are just bots.
- wpietri 14y ago
  Favoriting is now a misnomer. In practice, its value is as Facebook's "like" button on a post. That is, to signal to the other person. So yes, it destroys the usefulness of favoriting.
- greyman 14y ago
  > His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself. On the contrary - it does. Because the point of "favoriting" is that when my tweet is favorited, I expect that the other party liked it. Now that's not true anymore, since it could have just been a bot who performed that action based on keyword-targeting me, not by judging that the tweet has a value to be favorited.

ramayac 14y ago

I think the favorite feature should be a private thing, just something to save for later or remember, at least that's what I'm using it for.

joyeuse6701 14y ago

I agree, it's a social hack of sorts that he's using for advertisement, which is cool, but abuse of it would render favorites meaningless and it would become spam. However, I could see how if @pepsi wanted to favorite a tweet by @averagejoe because it said 'this new pepsi can is awesome!' it would seem legitimate enough and not spammy.

vickytnz 14y ago
Yeah, savvy companies are getting away from the annoying "RT every nice thing people say about my company" with 'fave it and then point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Hostgator does this well: http://twitter.com/hostgator/favorites http://twitter.com/hostgator/favorites
- fudged71 14y ago
  I don't understand what you mean by "point the faves at people if they want testimonials". Looks to me like they're just favoriting positive feedback that is sent to them
- ohashi 14y ago
  If you want to see both sides of that, I actually track positive and negative mentions and do some analytics too. Same company: http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/1/hostgator/ http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/1/hostgator/

AznHisoka 14y ago

I don't think the feature itself would be ignored. His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself. It would however cause users to start ignoring Twitter messages/notifications. People are already ignoring responses from people they don't know, and it can get even worse if we think most people interacting with us are just bots.

wpietri 14y ago
Favoriting is now a misnomer. In practice, its value is as Facebook's "like" button on a post. That is, to signal to the other person. So yes, it destroys the usefulness of favoriting.
greyman 14y ago
> His service doesn't destroy the usefulness of favoriting itself. On the contrary - it does. Because the point of "favoriting" is that when my tweet is favorited, I expect that the other party liked it. Now that's not true anymore, since it could have just been a bot who performed that action based on keyword-targeting me, not by judging that the tweet has a value to be favorited.