Are You 'Favoriting' Too Many Tweets?

If you’re on Facebook, you probably get annoyed when your stream gets spammed with all the “likes” of your friends, so how do you feel about being alerted to everyone’s “favorites” on Twitter?

It’s a growing trend on the micro-blogging platform and one that has the potential to get out of control – fast.

Business Insider reports that “favoriting has quickly developed into Twitter’s answer to Facebook’s like. It’s a way of saying, “Good Tweet!” without retweeting the tweet.”

Don’t believe us? Check out this chart that came from Twitter employee Isaac

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