Twitter has taken the first concrete step towards realizing the idea of ’disliking tweets’, which has been expected for a while. As it will be remembered, last year, the company started testing the emoji reactions feature like on Facebook. Thanks to the reactions, users were able to leave different feedback on a tweet.
The popular social media platform has now announced the downvote button, where people can leave negative reactions to tweets they don’t like. Twitter has opened this feature, which has been under development since July, to a limited number of users globally. He also shared important information about downvote.
Twitter won’t show downvote numbers publicly
In the post from the ‘Twitter Support’ account, “We learned a lot about the types of replies that you think are irrelevant. We’re expanding our test. You’ll have the option to downvote responses on the web and soon on iOS and Android.” statements were included.
Twitter placed the downvote button next to the like icon.
Sometimes heated discussions take place on Twitter. Worse, the course of the conversation under the sharing can change in a negative way and deviate from the purpose of the conversation. Users who were annoyed by this situation wanted a dislike button where they could react to the progress of the chat.
With the downvote button, the social media company will fulfill this request. Of course, it is worth noting that this feature is not exactly the same as the dislike button on YouTube. Twitter sees the ‘downvote’ more as a button that users will use for irrelevant replies to the relevant topic. Therefore, the total number of negative votes received by the tweet will not be public.
Twitter has been trying the downvote button in a few different ways since July. In the first of the tests, there were two buttons, positive vote and negative vote. In the second trial, a downvote button was placed next to the like (heart) button. The company announced that it decided on the second method and gradually released the new feature.
So, what do you guys think about this step of Twitter? You can write your thoughts in the comments section or on the SDN Forum.
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