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

Published 15:53 3 Nov 2015 GMT

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

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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. https://twitter.com/MoveTheSticks/status/661570446224060416 https://twitter.com/SarahDuggers/status/661561976133427200 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... https://twitter.com/FootballCliches/status/661566853093924864 https://twitter.com/nathizzle/status/661567386173243392

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