Twitter’s ‘downvote’ button test begins rolling out globally
Twitter is expanding its test of a “downvote” button to a select group of users around the world, it announced. The company said it received “positive feedback” from its initial experiments last July. “We learned a lot about the types of replies you don’t find relevant and we’re expanding this test –– more of you on web and soon iOS and Android will have the option to use reply downvoting,” the company said in a tweet.
We learned a lot about the types of replies you don’t find relevant and we’re expanding this test –– more of you on web and soon iOS and Android will have the option to use reply downvoting.
Downvotes aren’t public, but they’ll help inform us of the content people want to see. https://t.co/g8LcTpQqDvpic.twitter.com/wm5MmdR4Xh
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 3, 2022
Twitter said that as before, the number of downvotes a reply gets will not be visible to the public, and users’ downvotes will only be visible to them. In the first round of tests, Twitter offered different versions of downvoting. Some saw upvote and downvote buttons, while others only saw a downvote button next to the heart/like option. A third …read more
