No Love
It seems that twitter has either a synchronization problem or hates you, I mean, it’s purposely taking away “like” interactions from posts. I would like to think it’s the former. Sometimes it goes through and the like count increases properly. It’s not certain how this affects the tweet. Also, I’ve seen this behavior only in the main timeline or feed. If you access the post and do the like it goes through.
The problem with this is that if twitter is taking likes away, for whatever reason, then it might affect how you interact with your followers. You might think your post had none to little interaction, and then change marketing strategies that might be actually working. You'll end up in a ambiguous situation, imo.
Further more you might not find that post you liked because the system failed to register it. Also, your peeps won’t know you might have actually read their tweet. A like it’s a validation that someone saw your post. Does it matters? Yes it does. Twitter might be a void but some people still post things in the hopes to have some interaction. This is specially important to folks that promote their products in the platform. Unfortunately, their posts can fall into the void of twitter. But that’s a different topic than this one.
Fake Love
Well, here is the other way around. It seems that twitter loves (pun intended) to inflate likes from posts by removing the indication that you actually liked the tweet. It makes the heart go “hollow” again. I made a demonstration in the below video.
As you could observe in the video I depict a tweet I liked but the heart was not longer filled, still I show up in the list of “Likes”. Regardless, I was able to like it again, the number didn’t stay or went down, it increased. This is what I call “overblown”. They are not fake likes but they are not a 1:1 ratio (one per account), hence they are being inflated. This could make a post go viral in a fake way.
Why this happens? Beats me. ┐( ˘_˘)┌
True Love
It seems that the only real interactions are retweets and quote retweets (because replays can be suppressed by twitter), and in all honesty those are the ones that actually help since they “promote” a campaign or a piece of art from those you follow.
Now for some music…
The Twitter Song.
If you don’t know the original song here is the link to it.
What is love?
What is love?
Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
What is love? YeahNo, I don't know why you're not there
I give you my like, but you don't care
So what is right and what is wrong?
Give me a sign[Chorus]
What is love?
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
What is love?
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more[Post-Chorus]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, uh
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, uh[Verse 2]
No, I don't know – what can I tweet?
What else can I say? It's up to you
I know I did, I clicked that heart
I can't go on[Chorus]
What is love?
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
What is love?
Oh Twitter don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more[Post-Chorus]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, uh
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, uh, uh[Chorus]
What is love? (Oooh)
What is love? (Oooh)
What is love?
Oh Twitter don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more[Bridge]
Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me[Verse 3]
I want no bots, no more bots
This is our life, our timeline
We are tweeting, I need you retweeting
Is it love?[Chorus]
What is love?
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
What is love?
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more[Outro]
(Uh, uh) Oh Twitter don't hurt me
Don't hurt me no more (uh, uh)
Oh, Twitter, don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more
What is love?
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