Twitter rethinking the ‘like’ button

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Twitter is “rethinking” whether it should keep its “like” button in an effort to encourage “healthy conversation,” but the social media giant has not made a final decision about the heart-shaped button’s future.

“As we’ve been saying for a while, we are rethinking everything about the service to ensure we are incentivizing healthy conversation, that includes the like button. We are in the early stages of the work and have no plans to share right now,” Twitter said in a statement Monday.

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