Twitter favs -- the lifeblood that sustains your 140-character jokes -- are a thing of the past.
On Tuesday, Twitter replaced the beloved "fav" star with a baffling "like" heart. The company says this move is meant to make the platform "easier and more rewarding to use." But as is standard with most minor changes to beloved social platforms, users are hard-pressed to let the fav go.
They may take our favs, but they'll never take away our freedom to complain incessantly about it.
The superior way to tell someone "hey, cool tweet" is with a— Mashable (@mashable) November 3, 2015
If Twitter want to change the fav icon to represent how people actually use it; it should be an anim of a small, patronising pat on the head— rob manuel (@robmanuel) November 3, 2015
Finally we can end the age-old debate of whether it's spelled "fav" or "fave"— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) November 3, 2015
THE YEAR 2043 "Daddy, how did the war start?" "Well, my mutant son, a long time ago Twitter changed fav stars to fav hearts."— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 3, 2015
you just got that fav star tattoo, too pic.twitter.com/SI8WtTnMvD— drew olanoff (@drew) November 3, 2015
Fav never meant favourite anyway. It means "I agree.", "That's funny, but not enough to RT.", or "Let's end the conversation here."— Andy Kelly (@ultrabrilliant) November 3, 2015
I work at @twitter but even I can’t believe how we replaced a completely value-neutral term like “favorite” with something so loaded.— Peter Seibel (@peterseibel) November 3, 2015
is @favstar going to change its name?!?!?!— soniasaraiya ✍ (@soniasaraiya) November 3, 2015
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO POLITELY END CONVERSATIONS WITHOUT A FAVOURITE BUTTON?— sarah (@SarahDuggers) November 3, 2015
Everyone was busy worrying about whether RTs = endorsements, turns out we should have been concerned about favs all along— ROBERT HACKETT (@rhhackett) November 3, 2015
Guess I should have sold all my Favstar stock— keithlaw (@keithlaw) November 3, 2015
Actually, Twitter: pic.twitter.com/Pe6YWZrysO— MJ Franklin (@heyitsfranklin2) November 3, 2015