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Twitter tests it Dislike Button - Know how the test results went

Twitter is online news and social networking platform where people communicate in short messages also called tweets. Tweeting is posting short messages for anyone who follows you on Twitter, with the hope that your words are useful or most interesting to someone in your audience. Many people use Twitter to discover interesting people and companies online, opting to follow their tweets.

Why Twitter is much more popular

Twitter's big appeal is how scan-friendly it is. You can track hundreds of engaging Twitter users and read of their content with a glance, which is ideal for our modern attention-deficit world. Twitter employs a purposeful message size restriction to keep things scan-friendly: every microblog tweet entry is limited above 280 characters or less. This size cap promotes the focused and clever use for the language, which makes tweets easy to scan and challenging to write. This size restriction made Twitter a most popular social networking tool.

How Twitter Works

Twitter is simple to use as both broadcaster and receiver. You join with a free account and Twitter name. Then you send tweets for every day, every hour, and as frequently as you like. Go to the What's Happening box next to your profile image, type up to 280 or fewer characters, and click Tweet. People who follow you and potentially others who don’t will see your tweet.

Encourage people you know to follow you and receive your tweets in their Twitter feeds. Let your friends know you are on Twitter to build up a following slowly. When people follow you, Twitter etiquette calls for you to follow them back. To receive Twitter feeds, find someone interesting and press Follow to subscribe of their tweets. If their tweets are not as interesting as you hoped, you can always unfollow them. Go to your account at Twitter.com day or night to read your Twitter feed, which is continually changing as people post. Check out Trending topics to see what's going on in the world.

Why People Tweet

People send tweets for all sorts of reasons besides sharing of their thoughts such as attention, vanity, shameless self-promotion of their web pages and pure boredom. Nevertheless, a growing number of Twitter users send out useful content, and that's the real value of Twitter. It provides for the stream of quick updates from friends, scholars, news journalists, family, and experts. It empowers people to become amateur journalists of life, describing and sharing something that they found interesting about their day.  

Twitter has finally begun testing a dislike button on the app, but it’s nothing like the dislike button that you see on YouTube. The micro-blogging site revealed that the iOS users will now see new upvote or downvote options below a tweet. Nevertheless, the company said that the downvotes will not be shown publicly, only the user who has posted the tweet can see it. The upvotes on the other hand will appear as likes.

Some of you on iOS may see different options to up and down vote on replies. We are testing to understand the types of replies you find relevant in a convo, so we can work on ways to show more of them. Your downvotes are not public, while your upvotes will be shown as likes, Twitter posted.

Twitter’s head of product Kavyon Beykpour had revealed last year that Twitter might roll out a dislike button and the app has already begun testing the feature. Twitter informed about the latest upcoming feature via a tweet posted from their official handle.

It’s important to note that downvotes are only limited to tweet responses, not the original tweet. Twitter noted that the downvotes are visible to the person who has posted the tweet only and the votes would not change for the order of replies as it happens on other platforms including Quora and Reddit. Twitter also said that the feature is just a test for research right now, Twitter hasn’t finalized rolling it out yet. Twitter clarified that this isn’t a dislike button. 

At present, only YouTube has a dislike button that shows the number of likes or dislikes in a video whereas platforms such as Reddit and Quora have downvotes and upvotes buttons. The reason behind adding a downvotes button remains unclear if it would not be visible to anyone but Twitter says that it is to understand the types of replies you find relevant in a convo. No other social media apps such as Facebook or Instagram have explored the idea of adding a dislike button. While YouTube’s dislike button is visible to all, Twitter doesn’t want to show downvotes.