Social media giant Twitter has expanded the test of its "downvote" system worldwide. The company claims that downvotes will be used to "surface the most relevant replies within Tweets."
Social media giant Twitter has expanded the test of its "downvote" system worldwide. The company claims that downvotes will be used to "surface the most relevant replies within Tweets."
Twitter Testing Allowing Users To Downvote Comments By Tyler Lee, on 07/21/2021 18:26 PDT
Unlike Reddit, Twitter does not allow users to dislike posts or comments. If you don’t like a post or comment, you just leave it as it is, but if you like it, you can heart it, but that’s about it. However, it seems that Twitter is working on a way for users to downvote or dislike a comment, but there’s a catch.
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According to Twitter, these downvotes don’t do anything to the actual post or comment. On Reddit, comments with too many downvotes get hidden, but with Twitter’s approach, this is more about the company learning about what you like and what you find relevant, as opposed to the public reacting to comments.