If you're on Twitter, you may have noticed a new UI change on the company's website and mobile apps. The longstanding star button for favoriting tweets has now been replaced with a heart button. You can say a lot with a heart. Introducing a new way to show how you feel on Twitter: https://t.co/WKBEmORXNW http://pic.twitter.com/G4ZGe0rDTP— Twitter (@twitter) November 3, 2015 The functionality is identical; instead of a star you now have a heart. Twitter is going with the familiar terminology Likes/Liking to go with the new button. There is also a neat little animation that takes place when you click on the button. Twitter's ideology is that the previous star button could be confusing to newcomers, whereas with the heart button there is no confusion as to what the functionality is. Also, the heart button works across a number of situations, such as showing appreciation or support whereas the star button was more. emotionally stunted, so as to speak. Naturally, this caused a bit of an uproar among some who preferred the star button but overall most people seem to be taking well to it. It probably won't seem like a big deal to most people, though. That's because it isn't,...
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