imo the "favorite" thing was envisioned as a bookmark, a list for you, not for the favorited person. once users started using it as a sort of facebook-style "like" then it became a token of appreciation for the original writer
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:37 (eight years ago) link
yeah I don't think many twitter users are going to the list of things they favorited or w/e to revisit or follow-up on things, it's become a signal boosting/reward mechanism
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
is awarding people little gold stars is somehow less twee than clicking a heart? i'm not so sure
What if in your gmail, instead of starring important emails to easily recover later, they made the icons into little red hearts?
I mean, yeah. Apparently, you can replace the symbol with an animated gif of an exploding poo and get the same effect. I'm not rending my garment or gnashing my teeth over the change, but it is definitely a pronounced switch in the context in which people were used to using it.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:40 (eight years ago) link
Not everything on the internet has to be a goddamm Rose Is Rose cartoon.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:41 (eight years ago) link
ppl were using it more like a heart than a star if thats the delineation, but also everyone uses it ~in their own way~ and like just keep using it that way who cares lol, but if you had to say how ppl in general were generally using it they were using it more like a like than a bookmark ime
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:43 (eight years ago) link
also the name of it was favorite which is actually much stronger than like, they changed the image from a star to a heart but they changed the name from a heart to a thumbs up
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:45 (eight years ago) link
xp tweets aren't emails, though! god forbid. i think this is based on the assumption that people were actually using the favorites function to bookmark tweets for later recovery which, by and large... they weren't? afaict the fav had long & widely been used as a social feedback mechanism and they just changed the icon to be more in line with how the function was already being used
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:46 (eight years ago) link
ppl don't really bookmark tons of websites in the hopes of revisiting them occasionally to see what's new these days, mostly? I think Internet Explorer is the patient zero of "favorites" with a star icon, implying there's some sort of scarcity to a favorite
idk I think most people just type into google to return to things now or rely on url autocomplete on the web
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
might start tweeting again because of this
― twunty fifteen (imago), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
bookmarking still popular, it's just called pinterest now
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:51 (eight years ago) link
kind of!
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
full disclosure i have only like 9k+ tweets but 43k+ favs/likes
why because engagement
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
why because you have good tweets
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
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well...it was always going to be used that way as long as people can see that people favorited/liked their tweet, and who did it, and how many.
― some dude, Thursday, 5 November 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
which reminds me, i only just noticed recently that it's sometimes possible to not see who favorited a tweet, if it's a locked account and you don't follow them. and i get that some people want privacy but it's kind of frustrating -- if it's the same person favoriting my tweet every time that happens, it'd be nice to know who it is and request permission to follow them!
― some dude, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
mh i mean i've given out 43k+ stars that have since morphed into exploding hearts, i like letting ppl know i appreciate tweets
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
I just fave yours
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
iirc tweetdeck DOES have a function explicitly for compiling / aggregating selected tweets (called either 'collections' or 'custom timelines' it's confusing) so there has been an effort to meet that need but afaict it never caught on?
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:17 (eight years ago) link
i used to not fav and tbh imo twitter wld be better w only RTs
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
but RTs don't imply endorsement, faves surely do
bwahaha
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:20 (eight years ago) link
RTs mean i wld fuck the tweet favs mean i am in love with it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
they need a kill button
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:23 (eight years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
all social media site shd have a kill button and when u push it the person dies irl
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Was using RT as bookmark (as in any tweets that had an interesting link but didn't have time to read at the moment I came across it).
Faves were things I could see I liked, or as a full-stop to a convo - this is fine, nothing more to be said.
Goes without saying the outrage is just #internet
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
the only way to interact with tweets should be a hexadecimal rating labelled FEEL
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
I was thinking u would murder the tweet but you might be on to something
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:29 (eight years ago) link
yea remember how the google logo redesign ruined all our lives? me neither
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:30 (eight years ago) link
i stopped using google now i just shout into a coffee cup
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:31 (eight years ago) link
facebook announced they have a billion daily users imo mark zuckerberg shd be assassinated he flew too close to the sun
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
i use RTs for signal boosting or sharing joeks, sometimes they're good for sharing worthwhile responses to something you said that wouldn't otherwise be seen by your followers, otherwise i use it in a 'i wish i had tweeted this' way
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
I use tweetbot with the iOS share sheet function if I want to save tweets. Mostly with pocket.
― Jeff, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Za4NAWF.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
The custom Twitter emojis for livetweeting TV shows / live events way more grating than hearts imho
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
yeah imo the worst thing twitter has done to their product is just keep adding more crap
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 15:57 (eight years ago) link
tweet : fav ratio basically the most dependable metric i have for judging character
― crime breeze (schlump), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
I should tweet more, only tweeted like 5k times and been a member since November 2006
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
full disclosure: patron sailor's tweets where I do really mean *heart* button.
But most of the time, I starred stuff as an armchair curator of what's enlivening this world wide web of ours. And I did look at everyone else's star's to find cool shit. Ned Raggett was an excellent source.
Now all his hearts are gonna be personal stuff about sunsets, not about cool record stores being burned to the ground, etc.
― pplains, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
now if u want it done u have to burn the cool record store to the ground yrself
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:42 (eight years ago) link
idgi, how does one judge based on this
― gwyneth anger (patron sailor), Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
i have never looked at ppls favs before suspect its a p uncommon behaviors, heres a good article abt it on maxs new blog tho http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/guys-we-can-see-you-liking-sexy-instagram-pics.html
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
btw i tried it out and found someone faving hot teens pics and they were weed themed hot teens lmao
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
not the same but one day my gf grilled me when she saw a selfie by @_blotty (hot girl on twitter) on my tl over my shoulder, like "why do you follow her?!" and i was like uhhhhh
― flopson, Thursday, 5 November 2015 16:55 (eight years ago) link
can't wait for ilx to find my instagram faves, the endless stream of hot bikini pics
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Welcome to Following, New York Magazine's new limited-run site about internet culture, social media, and the many weird and fascinating things people do online.
could someone explain what 'limited-run' means in this context?
― George W. Lucas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
popup
― j., Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
it's only running for like a month
― mookieproof, Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:41 (eight years ago) link
I looked at the instagram likes of people I follow and was pleasantly surprised there was no hot teen pics but otoh there were a lot of boring grams being liked
― you too could be called a 'Star' by the Compliance Unit (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 5 November 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
i RT a lot and almost never fav/like anything -- at any given moment i have a small number of favs that are usually things i just want to bookmark, or a rare instance where i want to give positive feedback but don't want to RT or have nothing to say in response.
― some dude, Thursday, 5 November 2015 18:12 (eight years ago) link
pro tip: if you want to keep a list of hot instagram pics, have a pervo friend with instagram who you message occasionally and say "whoa check out these hot pics". then when you want to see hot pics, you look at their faves.
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 5 November 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link