Here\u2019s why Twitter might be removing the \u2018like\u2019 button Users of the massively popular social media website Twitter may soon have to adjust to a world where the platform no longer has a \u2018like\u2019 button. Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is reported to have maid the claim at a Twitter event last week, and is said to have stated that he \u201cis not a fan\u201d and that the like feature will be removed \u201csoon\u201d. It is believed that Twitter are taking away the feature in an attempt to improve the quality of debate on the site, as Dorsey believes this would make Twitter a \u201chealthier place.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time that Jack Dorsey has spoken of his dislike of the platform\u2019s like feature. Back in September, rapper Kanye West released pictures of a conversation he had with Dorsey about hiding the number of likes a tweet gets. In it, the Twitter CEO stated: \u201cWe\u2019ve been thinking deeply about the follower and like counts, and what that incentivizes. We want to change. We want to incentivize contribution to the global discussion.\u201d The social media platform has been testing out new options that allow users to save tweets they enjoy since March 2018, with the \u2018Bookmarks\u2019 tool that the company added thought to be a possible replacement. While Dorsey has stated this will likely happen in the near future, there is no official announcement as to when the feature will be removed, so users can still like all the pictures of dog memes they can find until the tool is removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here\u2019s why Twitter might be removing the \u2018like\u2019 button Users of the massively popular social media website Twitter may soon have to adjust to a world where the platform no longer has a \u2018like\u2019 button. Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey is reported to have maid the claim at a Twitter event last week, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}