Aw man I just realised

this 'Ted Cruz liked a dodgy video' Twitter thing

IT ONLY BECAME A BIG DEAL BECAUSE TWITTER IS AUTOMATICALLY TREATING LIKES AS RETWEETS!

Their hot new algorithmic timeline, see

it broadcasts 'X liked Y' to all your followers

and everyone's been saying for months 'stop doing that, Twitter, we don't want people to see all our likes'

but they kept doing it and suddenly

hahahahahahhahahaha