{"id":128504,"date":"2015-11-04T08:49:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T15:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/of-twitter-stars-hearts-moons-green-clover-purple-diamonds.html"},"modified":"2015-11-04T23:01:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T06:01:33","slug":"of-twitter-stars-hearts-moons-green-clover-purple-diamonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/of-twitter-stars-hearts-moons-green-clover-purple-diamonds.html","title":{"rendered":"Of Twitter, Stars, Hearts (Moons, Green Clover, Purple Diamonds &#8230;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the change in Twitter from a &quot;star&quot; for &quot;favorite&quot; to a &quot;heart&quot; for &quot;like&quot; is either the cleverest thing ever done in the history of social media, or the stupidest thing ever done in the history of social media. At least to judge from my reading this morning.<\/p>\n<p>(Frankly, I blame it on low Democratic turn-out, which seems to be the root of all sorts of shenanigans. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p><i>Anyway,<\/i> if you are really cheesed at now having to click on a heart, the post below lets you change it back to a star, or choose a beer mug, or a donut, or any other emoji.  I haven&#39;t quite mustered the will to care this morning, but I will say that clicking on a slice of pizza or a martini glass does have a certain charm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-to-replace-twitters-dumb-heart-with-the-emoji-of-yo-1740302661'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/3Ng_yZwOjnEiE1gnF340JVVzOxx_49KHdLYcv2WTr0ru16bTZDfCYW0erehBQe6Pd5HTLxAetesGGtnGS0pCK3iScoe1cSHVAkwybuKsKc16nwH49iomTEaQ_aPYOjtdNJSkiM3JhWR1e8NKaVwWMvetUmlIw_RDukmdnHiSW01uIfiEl3581kWM-vbMa1HVXEhZuFJw2g=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-to-replace-twitters-dumb-heart-with-the-emoji-of-yo-1740302661'>How To Replace Twitter&#8217;s Dumb Heart With the Emoji of Your Choice<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTwitter did a silly thing today. It took away its neutral star icon and turned it into a smarmy heart. Turns out, it&rsquo;s extremely easy to replace that heart. Let me help you.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/5nhCbVcRzid'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the change in Twitter from a &quot;star&quot; for &quot;favorite&quot; to a &quot;heart&quot; for &quot;like&quot; is either the cleverest thing ever done in the history of social media, or the stupidest thing ever done in the history of social media. At least to judge from my reading this morning. (Frankly, I blame it on low &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/04\/of-twitter-stars-hearts-moons-green-clover-purple-diamonds.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Twitter, Stars, Hearts (Moons, Green Clover, Purple Diamonds &#8230;)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,55,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging-technical","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33835,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/16\/the-lingua-franca-of-a-ok.html","url_meta":{"origin":128504,"position":0},"title":"The Lingua Franca of A-OK","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-May-13 4:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I confess I'm using Google+ and Twitter so much that it annoys me when I get an email at the office and can't signify basic agreement\/support by clicking +1\/Star\/Like somewhere on it. 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