The regular heart or like button on tweets, which
sits alongside the existing comment and retweet buttons, is shown on a
promotional poster on the Twitter Support account. However, under a tweet's
replies, there are now two additional upvote or like and downvote options,
represented by thumbs up and down, respectively.
On Facebook, the similar downvote (read dislike)
button on posts or comments has been long overdue, despite the company's
addition of the ability to react with several emojis. YouTube, on the other
hand, has been providing like and dislike buttons for almost ten years.
Twitter also stated that votes will not affect the
order in which people respond. According to Twitter User Researcher Cody Elam,
the feature allows "users to privately voice their opinion on the quality
of replies without publicly criticizing others while simultaneously providing
us with more nuanced feedback."
Downvotes aren't yet visible, while upvotes will be
displayed as likes, according to Twitter. Twitter has yet to provide
information on its Android availability for beta testers. The company also
doesn't appear to be showing the downvote (or dislike) counts. “This isn't
precisely a dislike button,” Twitter explains. The thumbs down icon indicates a
negative vote in this research experiment, indicating that you believe the
comment is irrelevant to the conversation.
We'd like to learn more about the types of responses
you find relevant in a conversation and which ones you don't." Downvotes
aren't public, and users won't be notified if someone has downvoted their
response, according to the company. “Upvoting a reply as part of this test will
be treated as a like – you will be notified, and the reply will appear in their
Likes page," it stated.
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