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What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately?. I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if they wanted.

FWIW, I do not personally like the 'Like' button in Facebook at all. The most banal things get 'liked' which totally devalues it. A 'Does not like' button would have been more interesting :)

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What about the little 'favourite star'? Surely that achieves the exact same thing ultimately?

The favorite button in it's current form is more like a bookmark button in my opinion. What's missing is that can't see who favorited a tweet.

In our (web-based) client we implemented this missing funcionality, renamed the button to "Like" and it works pretty well, it's being used a lot.

I think, but I can't remember for sure, that the number of times a tweet has been favourited is returned by the api, so clients could show it if they wanted.

No, it's not returned unfortunately.

Yes a dislike button is a must! I thought the star was me favouriting a tweet. I can see it but the person who's tweet is can't see that I have done that. I could be wrong though and like you say Facebook like is not for everyone anyway.

The dislike button has been suggested many times (and I think I have even seen fb groups demanding one). I think the reason they don't implement it is quite simple: it would damage the feel-good atmosphere. Imagine downvotes on new profile pictures or excited status updates.

Imagine if "Dislikes" exceeded "Likes" of a particular marketing campaign...

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