Twitter tests ‘thumbs down’ button for Tweets

Unlike likes, these thumbs up are not public and are not viewable by the tweet author. They are really just meant to feed Twitter’s algorithm, writes Company.

A number of random users on iOS participate in the test. Instead of the usual heart, they see both an up arrow and a down arrow. Here and there Twitter still experiments with a heart instead of an arrow.

If you press the up arrow, the tweet writer will still see the ‘like’.

Twitter says that for the time being it is a test to see which reactions are actually relevant to a user. It’s not clear if they plan to roll out this feature in the future.

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