Enter the Era of the Favorite

The well feature of speech on Twitter is one you probably do n’t use . I ’m talking about Favoriting , the bit of adding a mavin to a tweet that you like . It ’s drop dead to be huge .

Twitteradded two Modern features today , an @usernames tabloid and an activity yellow journalism . The @username pill will show you all the bodily process center around you — your young followers , which of your tweet were retweeted , your @ mentions and which of your tweets were favorited . The activity tab show the same stuff , but about your friends , which tweets they favorite , who they keep an eye on , and more . It also gives you the selection to see all their recent favorites .

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Both of these feature really be given to highlight favoriting in a way that we have n’t see before . Here ’s why you ’re go to love it .

Favoriting is good for Twitter , and unspoilt for users . It ’s just for Twitter because it drives engagement . People love to rate stuff . They love to select Like or +1 or little hearts and thumb up sign . And unlike retweeting , when you favorite something , it does n’t show up in your follower ’s timeline . It ’s a way of like or bookmarking something , without having to repeat it . And for you , it ’s neat for getting you to come in back and see how people respond to your tweet . Who does n’t lovevalidation ?

Favoriting is one of Twitter ’s oldest feature . It was really bosom by early adoptive parent , but subsequently shine off . That ’s probably for the most part because Twitter used to show favorites more prominently that it does now . contain out moment 15:30 of this video from 2006 where Jack Dorsey shows off the top 10 favorite tweets on Twitter , for example . It was one of the Twitter ’s more prominent feature right smart back when .

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But that was so long ago that Dorsey only had 90 following . Today he has 1.7 million . And somewhere between less than a hundred and more than a million , Twitter more or less buried its favorite feature , intentionally or not .

Without explicit financial backing from Twitter , third - party likeFavrd , Tweetorites , and most notablyFavstarbegan tracking them . And to some extent a subculture of favoriting grew around these community site .

But with today ’s new features , Favorites are poised to bump off the mainstream . I ’d be astonished if Twitter does n’t roll these features from @username and activeness into its desktop and mobile apps as well .

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Meanwhile , sites like Jason Kottke’sStellar.ioare take favorite - tracking to an obvious next level . prima collects not only your favorites on Twitter , but also those on Flickr , Vimeo and YouTube . As before long as you start using Stellar , it becomes obvious that aggregate favorites ( or likes ) and make them public is a great idea . ( Jason , if you are hear , please summate reenforcement for Instapaper , Pinboard , MLKSHK , and +1 . )

While Favorites have been there all along , those little stars have oft - remained idle . By play up Favorites , Twitter is giving its users an gentle way to be more in use . It ’s smart . And it ’s going to be immensely popular .

receive to the era of the Favorite . You ’re all going to have it away it .

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