Twitter may be losing its heart.

Via The Telegraph:

Twitter is planning to remove the ability to “like” tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network.

Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it “soon”.

The feature was introduced in 2015 to replace “favourites”, a star-shaped button that allowed people to bookmark tweets to read later. 

And the panicked responses have been, well…. panicked.

Twitter about to become a wasteland for artists who, like it or not, pun intended, rely on the tangible system of likes to get work circulating, track trends, and find each other

So, let’s talk about that…

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