{"id":629,"date":"2015-11-04T23:17:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petroldigital.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:17:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:17:33","slug":"twitter-finally-changes-the-favourite-to-a-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/twitter-finally-changes-the-favourite-to-a-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter finally changes the &#8216;favourite&#8217; to a &#8216;like&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Well it&#8217;s about time. The &#8216;favourite&#8217; star button that Twitter users were using as a way to show approval for a tweet (or as we&#8217;ll call it, a like) <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2015\/hearts-on-twitter\">has finally been redesigned into a heart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You can say a lot with a heart. Introducing a new way to show how you feel on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKBEmORXNW\">https:\/\/t.co\/WKBEmORXNW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G4ZGe0rDTP\">pic.twitter.com\/G4ZGe0rDTP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Twitter (@twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\/status\/661558661131558915\">November 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Now we can &#8216;heart&#8217; our favourite tweets until our hearts are content. There are a few issues creeping in already though, issues that Facebook has had for years and <a href=\"http:\/\/petroldigital.com\/meet-the-new-facebook-reaction-buttons\/\">soon will not have<\/a>. One such issue is hearting a negative event. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en-gb\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\">@twitter<\/a> can journalists get a &#8220;save&#8221; button then? Looks bad if I&#8217;m &#8220;hearting&#8221; a fatal fire tweet from another reporter. \u2014 Nate Benson (@natebenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natebenson\/status\/661565489131462656\">November 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As Twitter keeps crawling out of it&#8217;s identity abyss, we will keep seeing changes, and Twitter users (lets face it, all social network users) will display their distaste at change.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do you like the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twitter\">@Twitter<\/a> change from a star to a heart for when you like a post?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WREG News Channel 3 (@3onyourside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/3onyourside\/status\/661566817421254656\">November 3, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>To me though, this is a positive sign. For once, Twitter has been listening to how people are using Twitter and (for once) adapting to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s about time. The &#8216;favourite&#8217; star button that Twitter users were using as a way to show approval for a tweet (or as we&#8217;ll call it, a like) has finally been redesigned into a heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[87,91,119],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petroldigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}