OK, but I'd say the vast majority of Twitter users use Twitter exactly because the short format avoids boring political rants and debates. If people want to go on a political rant, there's Facebook and Tumblr. So I'm not sure that the average Twitter users wants to read political things to begin with; most of them are trying to avoid that sort of thing. Therefore I predict that removing the 'like' tool probably isn't going to have the effect that Twitter was hoping for, but then again you never know.
OK, but I'd say the vast majority of Twitter users use Twitter exactly because the short format avoids boring political rants and debates. If people want to go on a political rant, there's Facebook and Tumblr. So I'm not sure that the average Twitter users wants to read political things to begin with; most of them are trying to avoid that sort of thing. Therefore I predict that removing the 'like' tool probably isn't going to have the effect that Twitter was hoping for, but then again you never know.