Twitter is engaged on new upvote and downvote reactions for tweets to accompany the same old choices to retweet and reply. Twitter confirmed it was testing the characteristic for a small group of customers on iOS, and it’s already been noticed in accordance with a number of tweets from customers which might be a part of the check group.
Twitter writes that iOS customers might even see upvote and downvotes in a number of totally different types (up and down arrows, a coronary heart icon and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons) and that it’s testing the characteristic to “perceive the kinds of replies you discover related in a convo, so we will work on methods to point out extra of them.” At present votes aren’t public.
A few of you on iOS might even see totally different choices to up or down vote on replies. We’re testing this to know the kinds of replies you discover related in a convo, so we will work on methods to point out extra of them.
Your downvotes aren’t public, whereas your upvotes will probably be proven as likes. pic.twitter.com/hrBfrKQdcY
— Twitter Help (@TwitterSupport) July 21, 2021
Whereas Twitter hasn’t mentioned if it plans so as to add up and down voting as a everlasting characteristic (or how voting impacts what you see in your feed), there are clear parallels to be drawn to Reddit, which options upvoting and downvoting as a approach of surfacing a subreddit’s favourite replies, responses, and posts. Twitter says that for now although upvotes and downvotes don’t influence the order of tweets.
Twitter’s toyed with different kinds of tweet interactions previously, together with reactions that appeared to imitate the emoji reactions Fb makes use of for Fb posts and Messenger messages. Twitter’s product lead Kayvon Beykpour has additionally mentioned that the corporate deliberate to work on dislikes final yr, saying the characteristic was “one thing we’re exploring” in response to a person’s tweet.
Correction July twenty second, 8:45AM ET: Beykpour didn’t say dislikes have been a “high precedence” for Twitter final yr; he mentioned they have been being explored. Different options, like addressing harassment, have been listed as high priorities.
