ONTDers have been heard and Twitter is testing a dislike button for you to express your negativity.

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Twitter is testing Dislike buttons 👎

(via @iglehart97) pic.twitter.com/7TRAb5LlzT
- Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) July 21, 2021

- Twitter is testing a dislike button, for you to let people know you hate stuff.
- The feature is slowly rolling out to some users.
- This will not be part of Twitter Blue, Twitter´s recently announced subscription

Comments

[vvitchbaby]

"dislikes aren't public or visible to the author"
so there's no point in them then?

[sandstorm]

Right lol just letting Twitter devs be paid to waste time

[corruptionoflol]

maybe the # of dislikes is public but you can't click on it and see who disliked it?

[vvitchbaby]

ah yeah that would make more sense then

[vintage_boom]

it sounds like they're trying to drive off/surpress both stan twitter and the alt right in one feature.

[vvitchbaby]

I don't see how this would do that but i wouldn't doubt that to be their reasoning

[vintage_boom]

high engagement content is usually pushed to more feeds but now with a massive thumbs downs ratio vs other engagement it signals what content to supress.

[vvitchbaby]

ah I see I barely use twitter so didn't really understand how content is curated, thanks for explaining!