Twitter version of "like"?

Emily Winslow · Jul 14, 2012

I'm trying to tweet, trying to be a good listener, trying to be responsive and not just shouting clever things into the wilderness.

On Facebook, I use the "like" button a lot. Not automatically, not for everything, but there are a lot of statuses that don't warrant a particular comment, just an acknowledgement that the joke/news/observation made me smile. I'm trying to find an equivalent on Twitter.

I do reply to a tweet if I have something to actually say about it. Happy to retweet if something seems really special. There are tweets, though, that don't need a response and aren't amazing, I just want to acknowledge that I like it.

In Twitter etiquette, is there an action for this casual "made me smile, glad I read that" reaction? Something short of replying/retweeting?

Any advice appreciated.

benbradley · Jul 14, 2012

I can't think of anything for specific tweets.

In general, there's "Follow Friday" where on Friday you use a hashtag of #ff and @mention the people you like and think others might want to follow, often with an extra qualifying hashtag(s) such as #writer #funny or #smart or maybe even ... #like.

And if you want more AW followers, put a link to your twitter account in your sig.

SWest · Jul 14, 2012

Scroll over the tweet to reveal the "Favorite" icon. This marks the tweet for you and sends an acknowledgement to the poster.

Deleted member 42 · Jul 14, 2012

You could mark the Tweet as a Favorite.

AbielleRose · Jul 14, 2012

The only thing aside from retweeting it marking it as a favorite. That's not something the tweeter would see unless they went looking to see who favorited a tweet of theirs, though.

It depends if you want it private or public. Retweet if you want it publicly known, favorite it if you want it a little more quiet.

Emily Winslow · Jul 14, 2012

Thanks! "Favorite" looks like what I was looking for...

CAMueller · Jul 15, 2012

AbielleRose said:
That's not something the tweeter would see unless they went looking to see who favorited a tweet of theirs, though.

It depends on the user's account settings whether they will receive an email notification about favorites. Regardless, if they use Twitter directly (and not a third-party application like Hootsuite), the user will see when a tweet is favorited under the "interactions" section.

(Twitter makes updates fairly regularly, so they may change this in the future...because they like to mess with us.

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Twitter version of "like"?

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