Twitter expands their down vote feature test to a wider audience

Twitter started testing the reply downvoting feature last July, which is now expanding worldwide.

The feature will be available on the web and soon arrive on iOS and Android. And once you get it, you’ll be able to downvote replies to a tweet by clicking on the down arrow available next to the Like button.

 

 

But do note that the downvote button isn’t a dislike button and won’t change the order of replies. The downvotes won’t be displayed publicly either, and Twitter says they will only help the company understand what kind of content its users want to see.

Twitter also shared some findings from their experiments. The social media company said a majority of users declined to respond because they found the answer offensive, inappropriate, or both. The downvote button was frequently used by Twitter users to flag content they didn’t want to see, and the company said experiment participants agreed that downvoting “improves the quality of Twitter conversations.”