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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by kevinmchugh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @06:05PM (#17510636)
> I see tons of tweets from people I don't follow only because someone I followed retweeted it

This is the original, only purpose of retweets, going back to before it was officially supported and was done manually.

Showing tweets which have been liked by accounts you follow is a much worse behavior of the app. I like indiscriminately but tweet and retweet very seldomly. There's no feature to save and show appreciation for a tweet without boosting it to my followers.

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Re:Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Foll... by paulgb on Thursday July 12, 2018 @05:35AM (#17513213)
Favorites are useful as an "ack bit" too: indicating to someone that you've read their reply to you when you don't have anything else to add to the thread. I am more hesitant to use them that way these days.
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