Twitter deletes star and introduces heart

Twitter has its famous star, which can be labeled as a favorite tweets, replaced by a heart.

Investor Chris Sacca who, through his investment vehicle Lowercase Capital has a significant influence in the company, in early June already for such a change. According to him, the symbol of a heart twitterers encourage more frequent use of the messaging service.

Twitter is now caved. According to the company a heart less confusing compared to a star. " You can have a lot of things like that, but they are not all favorite ", said Twitter in a statement. " A Heart is thereby a universal symbol in all countries and cultures.

Twitter itself makes in his statement about the changes no mention of the similarities with the competition.