what does > mean? (on twitter)?

[muji panther]

recently ive noticed people on twitter writing something and putting a '>' after it and sometimes write somethig else after it. What does it mean?

[Filenotfound]

> means greater then (havent you taken middle school algebra :3)
so if you say peperoni > sausage pizza, you are saying peperoni is better then sausage.

[Thatgirl]

Greater than. Three examples:
Cats > Dogs - They like cats better than dogs.
Cats. > - They just like cats.
Cats. > Some of the cutest things ever! :3 - They just had a comment to add with it.
There is also a less than symbol which works vice versa.
Rain. <
Rain. < Sunshine.
Rain. < I'm so over the rain this week...
That's how it works.

[Rachel]

That is just a way people have come up with so that they can type less. So if they want to say a certain restaurant is better than another one they will just use> instead of saying better....(:
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