Twitter Is<br />Testing Out a, ‘Downvote’, Button.<br />Twitter Support announced on Thursday that it would be<br />testing out a new “downvoting” feature on the platform. .<br />Some of you on iOS may see<br />different options to up or down<br />vote on replies. We're testing<br />this to understand the types<br />of replies you find relevant in<br />a convo, so we can work on<br />ways to show more of them. , Twitter Support, via Twitter.<br />News of the “downvote” feature had already<br />circulated the previous night when a select number of<br />users received messages from Twitter.<br />The platform reportedly reassured users that their<br />“downvotes” would be used to help Twitter <br />“understand what people think is valuable to the conversation.”.<br />In its official tweet announcing the “downvote” option, Twitter<br />provided some additional “key notes” about the experiment.<br />The company specifically stressed that it is<br />a “downvote,” not a “dislike button.”.<br />It also told users that the “downvotes”<br />aren't public and would only be visible to you.<br />Your downvotes aren’t public, while your<br />upvotes will be shown as likes … This is just<br />a test for research right now … Votes won’t<br />change the order of replies, Twitter Support, via Twitter<br />.<br />Twitter’s product lead, Kayvon Beykpour, <br />mentioned in November 2020 that the company was “exploring”<br />the implementation of a “dislike button.”
