Re:Twitter Should Kill the Retweet
by guiambros on Monday October 29, 2018 @08:41PM
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10x this.
Likes and Retweets are very different behaviors, so I can't understand how they came to the conclusion that Likes should show up in other people's timelines. I imagine it was done to increase discoverability (particularly for users following few folks), but still a pretty bad UX decision.
For users who carefully curated the folks they follow (and who went through the trouble to disable retweets), having Likes showing up every now and then screws up the experience. Thankfully this seems mostly limited to mobile.
I'd rather still have the Like button as a subtle head nod between the reader and the author, but seems Jack want to kill it altogether. So be it; I'd rather see it gone than continue to be a pseudo-RT.
Likes and Retweets are very different behaviors, so I can't understand how they came to the conclusion that Likes should show up in other people's timelines. I imagine it was done to increase discoverability (particularly for users following few folks), but still a pretty bad UX decision.
For users who carefully curated the folks they follow (and who went through the trouble to disable retweets), having Likes showing up every now and then screws up the experience. Thankfully this seems mostly limited to mobile.
I'd rather still have the Like button as a subtle head nod between the reader and the author, but seems Jack want to kill it altogether. So be it; I'd rather see it gone than continue to be a pseudo-RT.