Twitter launched a brand new downvote reply characteristic to the platform final yr. Now, the app goes international with the characteristic and customers in all places will be capable of downvote replies on tweets with the brand new characteristic. The capacity is presently restricted to twitter internet customers, and iOS and Android customers are set to get the characteristic later.
Twitter additionally states that downvotes on replies will proceed to stay hidden and can therefore, not be publicly seen. Instead, they may assist the platform higher recognise extra related feedback and make them extra seen. Upvotes on replies although, might be publicly seen as likes.
“Some of you on iOS may see different options to up or down vote on replies,” Twitter stated asserting the characteristic, including that the platform is “testing this to understand the types of replies you find relevant” in a dialog.
We discovered rather a lot concerning the forms of replies you don’t discover related and we’re increasing this take a look at –– extra of you on internet and shortly iOS and Android could have the choice to make use of reply downvoting.
Downvotes aren’t public, however they’ll assist inform us of the content material folks wish to see. https://t.co/g8LcTpQqDv pic.twitter.com/wm5MmdR4Xh
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) February 3, 2022
Twitter additionally stated in a subsequent tweet {that a} majority of customers clicked the down arrow as a result of the reply was both offensive, irrelevant or each. “This experiment also revealed that downvoting is the most frequently used way for people to flag content they don’t want to see,” Twitter stated.
Twitter may deliver Articles characteristic with no restrict on characters
In different information, Twitter is reportedly additionally engaged on a brand new characteristic referred to as Articles, which is able to enable customers to write down longer posts, with no 280-character restrict that’s normally imposed on tweets.
This might be extra handy for customers who wish to submit one thing longer, who will now not must chain a number of tweets right into a thread.