How To Like a Tweet?

Socializing on Twitter is all through tweets. You can engage with tweets of people you follow, and you can also engage and interact with the trending tweets from public accounts of users on Twitter.

You can show that you appreciate a tweet or enjoyed reading it by simply liking the tweet without having to comment on it. But how exactly do you like a tweet on Twitter?

You can interact with tweets by retweeting, commenting on the tweet, or liking the tweet. Your followers can also see the ones you’ve liked whenever you like a tweet.

Continue reading the article for more details on liking a tweet.

How To Like a Tweet on Twitter?

Liking a tweet on Twitter is pretty straightforward. Follow the steps below to like a tweet:

1. Open Twitter and log in to your account. The Twitter home page will display multiple tweets from the people you follow and the tweets your followers like.
2. Scroll to the tweet that you want to like.
3. Click on the empty heart icon at the bottom right of a tweet. The white heart will turn red once you like the Tweet.

How To Like Tweets of a Specific Person on Twitter?

You can only like tweets of the people you follow or if someone has a public account. If a person’s account is private and you’re not a follower, you will not be able to access their tweets.

To like tweets of a specific person, follow the steps below:

1. Open Twitter and log in to your account.
2. Type the person’s username you’re looking for in the search bar.
3. Select the profile from the search results.
4. Scroll through the tweets to find the tweet you want to like, and click the heart icon underneath the tweet to like it.

You can use the same method to like other tweets as well and of any user on Twitter.

How To View Liked Tweets on Twitter?

Every Tweet a user likes on Twitter is displayed on their profile under the ‘Likes’ option, and anyone (depending on your privacy settings) visiting your profile can also view your liked tweets.

If you have a private profile, then only the people who follow you will be able to view your liked tweets.

To view your liked tweets, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your Twitter account.
2. Navigate to your Twitter profile.
3. Click on the ‘Likes‘ tab under the profile summary to view all the tweets you have liked from your account.

Your Twitter profile displays four options under the profile information. These options include:

• Tweets
• Tweets and replies
• Media
• And Likes

You can also view the liked tweets of the people you follow or users with a public account following the same method.

Instead of opening your profile, you simply open the profile of the person you want to view liked tweets of and view the likes.

Who Can See a Like on a Tweet?

Every time you like a tweet, the original author of the tweet will be notified about your like on the tweet. If you like a tweet retweeted without a quote, then the person who retweeted the tweet and the original author of the tweet will be notified about your like.

The tweets that you like will be displayed on your followers’ Twitter homepage with a note above saying you or anyone else they follow has liked a particular tweet. Similarly, the likes of the people you follow will also be displayed on your Twitter homepage.

The likes feature on Twitter can help you find new accounts to follow. Every time a follower’s liked tweet shows up on your home, and you find it interesting, you might end up following the account.

Conclusion

Liking a tweet on Twitter is an action for interacting or showing engagement with a particular tweet. To like a tweet on Twitter, you have to click on the heart icon under a tweet which turns red once you’ve liked the tweet.

Twitter allows users to see all their liked tweets and the option of viewing the liked tweets of other users except those with a private account on Twitter.

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