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Twitter is about to remove the red, heart-shaped 'like' function from its platform, reports suggest.

According to the Telegraph, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said at a Twitter event last week that he would get rid of the like function "soon." Per the Telegraph, Dorsey said he "was not a fan of the heart-shaped button."

In March 2018, Twitter introduced a bookmarking function, which allows users to privately save tweets without hitting the like button – which not only implies a positive attitude towards the content of the tweet, but is also public.

Twitter's potential removal of the like button forms part of an effort to create a healthier climate of debate on the platform, the Telegraph reports.

Dorsey hinted at his dissatisfaction with the like function earlier this month when he spoke at the WIRED25 summit.

"We have a big like button with a heart on it and we’re incentivizing people to want it 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?"

On the platform in question, people were pretty surprised by Dorsey's attitude to the 'like' button.

Many users pointed out that Twitter has much deeper challenges and that changing basic functionality was the wrong place to start improving the platform. Others will believe it when they see it.

The like button was added to Twitter in 2015 as replacement for the previous favorites button, which was star-shaped.
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Jack is trying to do something good for his platform, but his users will not accept any figure that is not leftist Gab, so they shit on it. It's the usual suspects.

Good thing Jack is smart and knows the dangers of maintaining an echo chamber, unlike Frog Man Torba.
 
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All the time I see Radical Islamic stuff treading on Twitter, can you get rid of that instead of the nonexistent Nazis or the Like button?
 
I use the like button for posts I like but not enough to retweet them. And I’m just talking about things like funny posts and nice pictures, not political discourse. That’s what 99% of people use the like button for, too.

Getting rid of the like button on any social media platform is the stupidest thing I’ve ever fucking heard.
 
I think about this and try to square it within the context of a healthy, thriving social media platform, and I just can't make it work.
 
I don't know, I do see some potential in this. The average twitter user, especially of the leftist persuasion, is too lazy or too stupid and uncreative to generate much buzz from their own posts. It's when they retweet posts that others, usually blue checks, create that already have thousands of likes and retweets that they get their dopamine hits. Take that away, and suddenly not only are their own regurgitations not getting them anything, but their retweeted stuff isn't getting them much either. So why bother?

It won't have much effect on militant, dyed-in-the-wool SJW, but maybe for the teenage tumblerite that only gives a shit because everyone around them seems to give a shit and it gets them attention it might be effective.
 
Disgruntled Pupper said:
I don't know, I do see some potential in this. The average twitter user, especially of the leftist persuasion, is too lazy or too stupid and uncreative to generate much buzz from their own posts. It's when they retweet posts that others, usually blue checks, create that already have thousands of likes and retweets that they get their dopamine hits. Take that away, and suddenly not only are their own regurgitations not getting them anything, but their retweeted stuff isn't getting them much either. So why bother?

It won't have much effect on militant, dyed-in-the-wool SJW, but maybe for the teenage tumblerite that only gives a shit because everyone around them seems to give a shit and it gets them attention it might be effective.
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That or without the presence of a Like button or any other way to obviously virtue signal people will engage in even more incestuous and constant retweet circle jerking and the site will become even more useless and spammy than it already is. Or people will idiotically post "me agree" NPC shit all the time, even more than previously. Part of why you have a "Like" or an "Agree" button in the first place is to prevent that kind of spam.

In any event Jack may be the stupidest motherfucker alive.
 
Good. Likes on Twitter are for weak-willed sycophants that need validation from people who will mean nothing to them in reality.

(...gosh, that sounded good. I sure hope I get at least ten "Winner" and "Agree" marks on this one, else I'm going to feel terribly dejected and will then have to spend an hour writing armchair psychologist remarks on lolcows just so I can feel relevant...)
 
AnOminous said:
That or without the presence of a Like button or any other way to obviously virtue signal people will engage in even more incestuous and constant retweet circle jerking and the site will become even more useless and spammy than it already is. Or people will idiotically post "me agree" NPC shit all the time, even more than previously. Part of why you have a "Like" or an "Agree" button in the first place is to prevent that kind of spam.

In any event Jack may be the stupidest motherfucker alive.
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Agreed. Haha I'm funny.

Imagine having to go through a 3000 page Brianna Wu thread where one third of all posts is just "agreed". I'd blow my fucking brain out.
 
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