Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First Week of Hearts

Re:Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First W... by smpetrey on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:19PM (#10542149)

I always understood "favoriting" to be like "saving" a post in reddit. However, the digestabilibty of tweets are pretty much instantaneous so "saving" them is without merit. So I understood the genesis of "hearting" or "liking" to be very much so a re-branding of a highly adopted UI. Was this move organized before @jack came back to Twitter?

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Re:Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First W... by wdmeldon on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:22PM (#10542171)

That's assuming the tweet is only text. I had used it to quickly bookmark links within tweets, but opening them and saving them to Instapaper honestly works better.

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Re:Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First W... by InAnEmergency on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @04:43PM (#10542768)

They were testing as far back as June, but probably even earlier: http://mashable.com/2015/06/17/twitter-favorite-hearts-stars...

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Re:Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First W... by n0us on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:22PM (#10542173)

I actually come back to a lot of saved Reddit posts, particularly ones on programming subreddits where I can't easily read the article or mess with the code on my phone.

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Re:Twitter Sees 6% Increase in “Like” Activity After First W... by taejo on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @05:25PM (#10543073)

That's the point - a Reddit post can be much more substantial than a tweet usually is, so saving makes more sense for the former than the latter.

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