Some Android users since June have seen a small, but significant tweak to Twitter: more hearts and fewer stars. Now it's iOS users' turn.
The social network has begun rolling out an experimental feature to some iOS users that largely swaps out stars for hearts when users "favorite" or save tweets. However different users are seeing different things. For example, some report seeing hearts only in the Notifications area, while others are seeing the symbols pop up in their feeds, too.
Even the heart symbols vary -- they're either circled or standalone.
@heeeeeresjenna yeah babe it's the update pic.twitter.com/Q9Xsa9mJCP— αиαριzzα ⚯͛ △⃒⃘ (@anapizza__) July 28, 2015
Tweets they've saved are also marked with a heart badge.
"We are experimenting with new and redesigned tweet engagement action on iOS," a Twitter spokesperson told Mashable.
Like Twitter's previous tests, only a small group of users will notice the change, however it's worth noting some Android users continue to observe hearts inside the app, which suggests Twitter is expanding this particular experiment -- or at least finding user engagement promising.
Interestingly, hearts replacing stars to save content may have been the brainchild of early Twitter investor Chris Sacca. The entrepreneur suggested the social network "bring on the hearts" this June in his epic 8,500-word memo, "What Twitter Can Be."
"If Twitter integrated a simple heart gesture into each Tweet, engagement across the entire service would explode," Sacca wrote in the memo. "More of us would be getting loving feedback on our posts and that would directly encourage more posting and more frequent visits to Twitter."
Still, expect at least some small subset users to gripe about the change in the short-term, much the same way a small number of users disliked it when Twitter revamped its retweet feature this April, making it easier for users to plug other people's tweets and add commentary of their own.