All hell broke loose recently when Twitter replaced the yellow star icons for declaring tweets as your favorites with the red colored hearts to like the tweets. The twitter fan boys lamented in their tweets the loss of the yellow star that they had been using for many years now. Some declared Twitter’s decision as unfortunate and gratuitous while some felt as if they could no longer use Twitter with the red hearts coming in their way. Personally, nobody I know has expressed felicitous thoughts about the red like hearts, but everyone seems to be astounded at the changes.
If you are one of those Twitter users who think the red hearts are a little bit corny, then you can replace them with any emoji of your choice. Here is how:
- Install the Stylish extension in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera from https://userstyles.org/.
- Visit Twitter.com website in your web browser. Click on the Stylish icon in the browser toolbar and choose Write new style → For twitter.com.
- Type in the name of the new style, e.g., twitter-heart-replacer. Copy-paste the following between the curly brackets “{ }”. You can change the emoji after the “content:” line to anything of your choice. If you are using Windows 10, then you can use the touch keyboard for typing emoji’s. You can also find some emojis online. Some popular emojis that you can try by copy-pasting are – 👾 ⭐️ 🌟 🎅 💋 🍔 🌛 .:
.HeartAnimationContainer {
visibility: hidden;
}
.HeartAnimationContainer:after {
content: ‘👾’;
visibility: visible;
display: block;
position: absolute;
}
- Click on the Check for Errors button to see if the code is correct and then click on the Save button to save the new style.
- Now switch back to Twitter website and hit F5 to refresh the web page. You would see that red hearts have been replaced with the emoji of your choice.
Conclusion: Twitter has killed off the favorite star and has replaced it with like hearts, but you do not have to like the like hearts. You can use your own emoji in place of the red hearts and keep using Twitter like before.