Culture Twitter is removing the like button

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-like-button-remove/#z1MzhImBkmqS

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.

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.

 

[Übertroon]

What if I rate every post I see "feels" and like every profile post.

You're welcome to try

 

[Trilby]

Can you imagine a world without twitter?

I miss those days!

 

[Done]

Not sure if this was said already, but under Jack Dorsey's leadership, Twitter frequently does this thing where they leak that they're considering a change, just to see how people react. You'll recall that they did it multiple times with the character limit, and I'm sure we will see multiple leaks like this in the future, some of them may happen, others won't.

In other words, this could be a nothingburger.

 

[lolwut]

They'll never get it right until they add a 'DRINK' rating.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Deviant, horrifying, and aroused. You don't need anything else.

Would that be the Kiwi equivalent of “Fuck,Marry, Kill”?

 

[HarvurdChikee]

good for twitter for trying to make itself the worst social media platform in history.

 

[Dizzydent]

I see this as a logical move for twitter based on this. Twitter is always dealing with whiney bitches who are calling for bans every minute of every day to the point they're blanket banning people for even being the least bit associated with something that isn't SJW. Obviously twitter doesn't want to be banning thousands and thousands of people daily. People who report stuff on twitter usually do so because of likes something they disagree with gets and twitter gets blamed so it has to take some responsibility for giving a platform for people to literally "heart" and show a tally of support for controversial stuff they may not support or at least don't want to publicly endorse. So to rectify a bit of that you take away the power of group think a bit. Twitter isn't advertising someone who's a white supremisist with a bunch of followers so much as now twitter would be advertising that a lot of people are talking about what this one white supremesist said. Endorsing something and sharing something for someone else to see are very different so it takes some of the pressure off twitter that it's been getting from some liberal crowds mostly.
Plus it will weed out some narcissists a lot of who just talk bullshit in order to receive likes by pandering to the largest base regardless of personal belief.
Something like this could help cut down on twitters liability and cost and encourage people to post more meaningful points filtering out a bunch of garbage so I'm for it so far

 

[Disgruntled Pupper]

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.

It definitely could, but I'm thinking about the sheer laziness that pervades 2018 twitter. I'm hoping there's a certain subset for which retweeting "yass queen slay" for every thing they use to just like will be too much effort.

 

[Dan Abrams]

Can you imagine a world without twitter?

I'm imagining that one meme that shows the happy nuclear family playing outside in the 90s, then cut to present day with the tranny sucking a dildo and the guy loading a pistol.

 

[Keystone]

I'm imagining that one meme that shows the happy nuclear family playing outside in the 90s, then cut to present day with the tranny sucking a dildo and the guy loading a pistol.

I like the 2016 edition of that where the family is back outside with MAGA hats while the fat rainbow haired tranny is loading the pistol.

 

[TowinKarz]

Remove ratings a

I see this as a logical move for twitter based on this. Twitter is always dealing with whiney bitches who are calling for bans every minute of every day to the point they're blanket banning people for even being the least bit associated with something that isn't SJW. Obviously twitter doesn't want to be banning thousands and thousands of people daily. People who report stuff on twitter usually do so because of likes something they disagree with gets and twitter gets blamed so it has to take some responsibility for giving a platform for people to literally "heart" and show a tally of support for controversial stuff they may not support or at least don't want to publicly endorse. So to rectify a bit of that you take away the power of group think a bit.

The more I think about it, the more I think this is the reason, remove the ability to virtue signal by "liking", you remove the ability to hyper-politicize every single post and turn every tweet into a potential career-ender or account-suspender. Without the easy like option, people will have to show their support or disapproval by actually commenting, and the intellectually lazy and incoherently violent (SJW Twitter) cannot do this, or do it in a way that doesn't get THEM banned.

Though, I don't think this is out of any support for the First Amendment or a desire to cultivate a more thoughtful and free-thinking platform, just an attempt to please advertisers, rein in the out-of-control screechers and try to make a profit for once. But considering how pro-ban pro-censor everything has become lately, I don't care if we're getting to this point for the "wrong" or mercenary reasons, I"m just glad we're apparently here.

 

[PantsFreeZone]

Twitter should remove the TWEET button instead.

 

[Coldgrip]

Would that be the Kiwi equivalent of “Fuck,Marry, Kill”?

And for good measure you can rate a post all three at once.

 

[Kiwi Lime Pie]

I have no doubt this is in response to 'woke Twitter' getting fucking ratio'ed or blue checkmarks with tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands of followers) getting 'likes' in the level of low double digits.

Removing the Like button isn't going to accomplish anything. It is a fucking milquetoast, pussy band-aid that doesn't even cover the bullet hole. Yet again, he's just pissing everyone off with a shitty decision.

I, too, have a suspicion that some of the more narcissistic users dislike seeing their posts get few likes (=asspats) and this possible action is in response to that and the mentality that everyone has to be treated equally lest they melt like a . I liken it to youth soccer where everyone gets an award regardless of actual performance so nobody feels left out or has hurt fee-fees. Here, to keep everyone on a perceived-equal footing, eliminating likes has been proposed possibly to ensure people won't be hurt if their most mundane or uninteresting posts generate few likes or none at all.

Getting rid of the like button on any social media platform is the stupidest thing I’ve ever fucking heard.

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.

Count me in on this. It's convenient to like a tweet as opposed to making "I like this" as a reply or comment attached to a retweet. All that does is add to the noise and make it harder to find the actual posts. If I didn't know better, I'd wonder if Twitter is trying to be more like Tumblr - Godbear forbid.

Not sure if this was said already, but under Jack Dorsey's leadership, Twitter frequently does this thing where they leak that they're considering a change, just to see how people react.

This is possible, but how many times has a social media site proposed a bad idea only to ignore user response against it and implement it anyways?

 

[Jaiman]

I can't wait for Twitter to remove the tweet function.

 

[Casta Spersions]

I am enjoying the salt from this, probably because I don't use Twitter anymore. I wonder what would happen if they just changed it from"liked" to "saved". Does "saved" give people the same dopamine hit as liked? Hope not!

Remember when people would draw the internet if it was a physical place? Somebody must have done one for Twitter. Bet it looks like goatse.

 

[Libyan]

I can’t wait for the next update where they remove the ability to privately message people. :^)

They are gonna remove accounts next