{"id":44417,"date":"2014-08-17T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T22:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/dear-twitter-worst-idea-ever.html"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T23:07:51","slug":"dear-twitter-worst-idea-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/dear-twitter-worst-idea-ever.html","title":{"rendered":"Dear Twitter: Worst. Idea. Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">No, Twitter, I <i>don&#39;t<\/i> want the things I flag as a &quot;Favorite&quot; to be shared in my stream. That&#39;s what &quot;Retweet&quot; is for, duh.<\/p>\n<p>I use Favorite for two things: to acknowledge someone&#39;s tweet (&quot;Ha! Clever! Saw this! ACK!&quot;) and to flag things for later reading.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, neither of those is meant to be shared. I am not interested in my Favorite items being added to my stream, nor the Favorites of others showing up there. Unless, in either case, it was intentionally Retweeted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please pull the plug on this experiment, or, at most, make it an opt-innable option (both as sender and receiver).<\/p>\n<p>(And, yeah, I&#39;m posting this on G+, but it will mirror to my blog, thence to Twitter.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/104903796944242132513'>Gizmodo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twitter Tests Turning Favorites Into Retweets, Frustration Ensues: <a href=\"http:\/\/trib.al\/oXdCbQJ\">http:\/\/trib.al\/oXdCbQJ<\/a>\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-l5YQ7ZrcwiI\/U_EnCfGFRkI\/AAAAAAAAFHQ\/mBrB9DvjAOY\/803-c57522d0b9da95a2d14187363dc1a6cc.jpg?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7m4FPDAJNyY' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Twitter, I don&#39;t want the things I flag as a &quot;Favorite&quot; to be shared in my stream. That&#39;s what &quot;Retweet&quot; is for, duh. I use Favorite for two things: to acknowledge someone&#39;s tweet (&quot;Ha! Clever! Saw this! ACK!&quot;) and to flag things for later reading. Needless to say, neither of those is meant to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/17\/dear-twitter-worst-idea-ever.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dear Twitter: Worst. Idea. 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