Posted on 10/29/2018 12:35:18 PM PDT by SMGFan
Twitter is reportedly considering a major change in efforts to decrease toxicity on the ubiquitous social media platform used by more than 60 million people each month: the longstanding 'like' button could be on its way out.
The Telegraph reports Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said last week at a Twitter event that he "was not a fan of the heart-shaped button" and would get rid of it "soon." This was foreshadowed by Dorsey's sentiments at the WIRED 25 Summit.
"We have a big like button with a heart on it and we're incentivizing people to want (their likes) to go up," Dorsey said. "Is that the right thing? Versus contributing to the public conversation or a healthy conversation? How do we incentivize healthy conversation?"
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
So if Twitter gets rid of the like and retweet buttons it’ll be the biggest gaff since Coke went from orginal Coke to New Coke in the 80’s
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“New Coke” was just a failed scam to cover the fact that they had changed to HFCS instead of cane sugar.
Was a stupid move, just like dropping features at any website.
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Correctamundo!
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They could accomplish this more comprehensively by reducing the maximum tweet character count to Zero.
compared with FR it is like eating broth instead of a steak dinner.
probably it. Fascist global control freaks losing across the world.
I don’t Twit but liberals change the rules when they are losing.
I think twitter was an indication to me that technology and the world of communication is leaving me behind. I just don’t understand how it works, yet I see many people who live by it.
Free Republic needs a Like button and ability to edit misspelled words.
I’m glad they’re getting rid of it. Too many people just hit the heart and Don’t reTweet posts. This makes it so posts are not passed around as much. More people will see Conservative messages if they are retweeted instead of just liked.
Except when you follow many people and they all retweet the President
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