Is Twitter planning to get rid of ‘likes’?


  • TECH
  • Friday, 02 Nov 2018

?stanbul, Turkey - August 28, 2017: Woman using smart phone on a wooden desk. The smart phone is an iPhone 6 plus displaying Twitter application. iPhone is a touchscreen smartphone developed by Apple Inc.

LOS ANGELES: Twitter is reportedly set to scrap its “like” feature, a move that would be intended to improve the overall quality of the interactions on the platform. 

According to a report by the Telegraph, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees at an in-house event last week that he “was not a fan of the heart-shaped button” and that the social service would be eliminating it “soon”. Twitter, in a tweet Monday by its PR team responding to the Telegraph story, neither confirmed nor denied a plan to discontinue “likes”, saying only that it is “rethinking everything about the service” (including the “like” button). 

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