{"id":2821,"date":"2015-11-03T07:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:59:21","slug":"aww-twitter-replaces-stars-with-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=2821","title":{"rendered":"Aww: Twitter replaces stars with hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an announcement that might have made a bit more sense on Valentine\u2019s Day. Twitter on Tuesday announced that it\u2019s switching its \u201cFavorites\u201d icon on Vine and Twitter from a star to a heart. Previously, if you liked something someone said, or maybe just wanted to save it for later, you\u2019d \u201cfavorite\u201d the post by tapping a star. Now you tap a heart.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Twitter said it made the change because the heart is a \u201cuniversal symbol that resonates across languages, cultures, and time zones\u201d and that it\u2019s \u201cmore expressive, enabling you to convey a range of emotions and easily connect with people.\u201d It said it found that users generally preferred the heart more, and that it recognized users who embraced the usage of the symbol on Periscope.<\/p>\n<p>Hearts are now the default option on <a class=\"vglnk\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter.com<\/a> and Tweetdeck, and on official apps for Android, iOS and Windows 10. They\u2019ll be implemented in Vine for iOS and Twitter for Mac \u201csoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sourcevia-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sourcevia fCaps fLS0\"><span class=\"label fLS1\">SOURCE<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2015\/hearts-on-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TWITTER<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an announcement that might have made a bit more sense on Valentine\u2019s Day. Twitter on Tuesday announced that it\u2019s switching its \u201cFavorites\u201d icon on Vine and Twitter from a star to a heart. Previously, if you liked something someone said, or maybe just wanted to save it for later, you\u2019d \u201cfavorite\u201d the post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}