First off I'm sorry if this has been requested previously (I'm sure it has somewhere), I searched around the group and couldn't spot anything related.
The feature is pretty straightforward on the surface. If I see a tweet that I like, then I can publicly mark it as such. This then opens up a whole lot of great features including: 1) A feed of the most popular tweets on Twitter at any given time 2) A feed of what tweets my friends are liking at the moment, filtering out some of the noise. 2,a) This also exposes me to other people who my friends may follow and I would be interested in. 3) If I want to get feedback on something (be I an individual, charity, or business) I can do so easily by asking my followers to like a tweet if they agree with it. I admit another reason why I'd like to see this in place is the constant duplicate retweets I, and I expect everyone else, gets in their timeline. Generally you follow groups of people with similar interests so retweeting of the same tweet is common. This feature would allow your friends to rate tweets meaning duplication is only in the rating and not pushed up into your feed. Not that this would or should kill retweeting, but it may just minimize the need for it. Also rating has less of a barrier than retweeting. Nobody likes a retweet-manic! Keep up the great work with the API guys (and girls?). Mike
