Like many people last week I was a bit bemused by the introduction of the heart button on twitter. Kate Bowles has written a beautiful post about the corporate justification of highjacking emotions. Lawrie Phipps took a more practical approach and summed up my use of the old like button:
it also made me think. I used the old star/favourite for two things. The first, I realised after reflection, was a lazy way of acknowledging that I had seen a tweet, but couldn’t be bothered to respond, or wasn’t something I wanted to retweet.
I do save all my tweets to a google doc, but I can’t remember the last time I actually looked at it. So, following Lawrie’s lead I have now decide to (well try to) use a small number of hashtags instead of the heart button and hopefully save and share tweets in a more meaningful way using an IFTT recipe.
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