Twitter announced that it is introducing an experimental feature that allows users to downvote answers within tweets to global readers. The functionality was first tested with a small group of iOS users last year.
According to Twitter, the ability to downvote replies is intended to aid in understanding the sorts of responses that users find meaning in a conversation. Downvotes, on the other hand, are not visible to the public. This is in contrast to sites such as Reddit, where both upvotes and downvotes are exposed for public inspection to determine if the masses liked or hated a given comment.
As an outcome of the update, Twitter users on the web will now be able to downvote a specific reply in a discussion. The experience will also be accessible to Android and iOS users worldwide in the near future, according to a tweet from the Twitter Support account on the site.
As a result of the upgrade, Twitter users on the web will now be able to downvote a single reply in a debate. According to a message from the site’s Twitter Support account, the experience will also be available to Android and iOS customers globally in the near future.
Twitter has stated that the functionality is just for research purposes and that votes would not affect the order of answers.
Downvote replies were launched as an experimental feature by Twitter in July of last year in order to “work on methods to highlight” more relevant comments in a discussion. According to the microblogging network, the preliminary testing revealed that the majority of its users selected the down arrow in their answers “either because the comment was seen as insulting, or because they perceived it as irrelevant, or both.”
According to Twitter, the most common way for users to identify stuff they don’t want to see is by downvoting.
