Twitter has just replaced the star icon on its button for favoriting tweets with a heart, because people found the old one confusing. While the change might have solved that problem, it’s also introduced a new issue — everything you want to mark as important is now a ‘like’. That’s a problem for certain kinds of content in tweets. Do I want to ‘like’ news about hundreds of people dying because of a landslide? Do I, as a liberal, want to applaud my conservative friend’s differing views on gun control? I favorite to acknowledge tweets that don’t necessarily warrant a…
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