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03rd Nov 2015

There’s been a huge backlash to Twitter’s latest changes

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Tom Victor

Seeing as the basic concept of Twitter is ‘less is more’, it should be difficult to make changes that p*ss people off.

Those of us who use the social network think the 140-character limit, retweet and favourite functions work just fine.

But the star used for favouriting posts has all-of-a-sudden been replaced with a heart, and people really aren’t happy.

https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/661558496626896897

It’s clear that some of use use the favourite button for different reasons to those the Twitter honchos expected.

The backlash against the backlash started early this time…

https://twitter.com/kevinmccauley/status/661560914940977152

https://twitter.com/CmonHarris/status/661562531270565888

While there’s still at least one bastion of hope…