Twitter Plays God with the Hearts of Millions

[cronus]

Can't trust power in the hands of geeks....

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style ... 19616.html

Twitter hearts: Likes take over from favourites as social network drops its beloved star symbol

This'll trip a few anal types up....probably the only reason for it?

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[Jason]

Sign of a future merger, or at least financial courtship, between twitter and facebook maybe? I mean why else should they wish to change their nomenclature to match facebook's, the system was obviously functional as it was.

[cronus]

Sign of a future merger, or at least financial courtship, between twitter and facebook maybe? I mean why else should they wish to change their nomenclature to match facebook's, the system was obviously functional as it was.

Cargo cultism after comparing the share values?

Massive un-liking spree happening out there - Twitter might have stumbled on the self-destruct button by mistake?

[NineBerry]

Many users are known to the star and the term "favorite" as a functionality in software (e.g. web browsers) as a method to privately store items for later use. While the Twitter favs are public and by many users used to express "I like this tweet". Changing twitter fav star to like heart prevents this kind of misunderstanding.