Users Are Not Happy That Twitter Reweets Favorites and Follows

Posted by Jed under Social Media
From http://smallbiztrends.com 3389 days ago
Made Hot by: FutureVision on August 26, 2014 11:39 am

A new Twitter experiment shares favorites and follows in others’ Twitter streams as if they were retweets – and a vocal group of users aren’t too thrilled about the idea.

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Written by 27will
3382 days ago

Honestly, this change isn't great for personal users, but for small business users it could probably be a nice exposure booster since even simply favoriting one of your tweets will now expose it to all of that user's followers.

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Written by lyceum
3383 days ago

So, Twitter wants to keep everyone on “tabs” of what’s going on? ;)

The favorite feature (star) is often used as a bookmark for Twitter users. When will Twitter spend some more time on the search function and let us avid users of the service be able to follow new tweeps, after reaching the so-called Twitter follow limit?

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Written by ebele
3386 days ago

I can see why some users have a problem with it. It does seem a bit intrusive. But then, it's not much different to what Facebook does with its news feed - plus there's the ticker.

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