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Twitter's 'Favorites' experiment miffs users

Posted at 6:30 PM, Aug 18, 2014
and last updated 2014-08-19 08:04:38-04

A new experiment from social media giant Twitter has ruffled the feathers of its users.

Twitter is testing a feature on some users that makes public the tweets that they've marked as favorites—a feature that was formerly private.

Users of the service, including technology bloggers, reacted angrily online Monday. See more in this report from Newsy.