Will you be my Twitter Valentine?
update
At approximately 12:01am the Internet started erupting with love today.
First example: Twitter, down on and off most of the day – as has seemingly become the norm in recent weeks (our coverage) – came back online with a new feature just for Valentine’s day. Valentine tweets.
Though there is no official word from Twitter yet as to how this works, here’s the gist: You type out a Twitter message directed at someone, including the universal internet symbol for a heart: <3. So for example you would say: “@username <3″. Once you publish, a red heart icon with the person’s username you put after the @ symbol will appear. Then, the person you hearted will be pinged to ask if they ‘heart’ you back, via a giant ‘YES’ button. See screenshot above.
Twitter is hardly the only service spreading the Valentine’s day love. The Google Docs Blog wrote earlier about their holiday treat, a pink skin and the yellow stars replaced by hearts. Sure enough, this is now live and hideously wonderful.
Social aggregation service FriendFeed also has a special Valentine’s Day logo up. Nothing from Google’s main page yet, but you know it’s coming.
[update]: Twitter finally got around to posting on their new Valentine’s Day feature a mere 12 hours or so after we did. Read that here.
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About the Author, MG Siegler
MG Siegler writes about technology trends and new media for VentureBeat, with a focus on mobile topics, social elements and key news stories. Before that, MG wrote about technology on his blog, ParisLemon. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan where he studied film. He's previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in San Diego where he did web development. He now lives in San Francisco.
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