Stars no more: Twitter ditches stars, adds hearts for likes
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Stars no more: Twitter ditches stars, adds hearts for likes
November 05, 2015
Published: November 05, 2015
Lexile: 1310L
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CRITICAL THINKING QUESTION
Why does Twitter care how symbols are perceived around the world?
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I don't understand why this had to be changed. Twitter has used this for a long time so it's useless to change it now. People will learn that the star means favorite if they really want to use twitter.
I like the new change twitter has made from the favorite to the like. Now people that are new to twitter from all over the world know what the world like over the word favorite. It is the same exact thing but it helps bring twitter to more of a global social app. Now maybe with the change of one little thing like that the whole world will be more willing to give this social media app a chance.
everyone knows a heart mean to like something they are trying to make it easier to use
Some new people to Twitter may be confused on what the star does.
Kinda pointless to change that not a big deal. The heart and the star why have news stories over something so pointless?
So they can bring in new people to use it and make more money
The company wants to draw more users so they use more universally accepted symbols, such as the heart to "like" a tweet.
Because they want to fit in
Twitter doesn't want to confuse others around the world. They want everyone to understand and be able to relate to Twitter so they will have more users. People may not use twitter just because they don't understand it.
Why is this a topic?