--- description: "Twitter users were heartbroken, or as I still think of it, star-broken" title: Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks About Twitter's New Heart Button image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks About Twitter's New Heart Button by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2015 3:51 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 5, 2015 3:51 PM CUT This week, Twitter traded its signature star-shaped “favorite” button for a heart-shaped “like” one. On Wednesday’s episode of _The Late Show_, Stephen Colbert shared his opinions on this change. His opinions, it turns out, are very, very strong. “Twitter users were heartbroken,” Colbert says solemnly, “or as I still think of it, star-broken.” He cited Twitter’s [blog post](https://blog.twitter.com/2015/hearts-on-twitter "undefined"), which said the star could be confusing to newcomers. “Yes, the concept that a gold star means good might indeed confuse newcomers… to kindergarten.” Watch Colbert’s full rant — which features an appearance from his _Strangers With Candy_ co-star Paul Dinello — above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/"},"headline":"Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks About Twitter's New Heart Button","datePublished":"2015-11-05T15:51:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:38.985Z","description":"\"Twitter users were heartbroken, or as I still think of it, star-broken\"","url":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/","name":"Here's What Stephen Colbert Thinks About Twitter's New Heart Button"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Best of Stephen Colbert","description":"The next host of","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PNJDP9f3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-04-10T21:49:49.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PNJDP9f3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/","duration":"PT4M30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4101388/stpehen-colbert-twitter-heart/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```