Twitter is engaged on new upvote and downvote reactions for tweets to accompany the same old choices to retweet and reply. Twitter confirmed it was testing the function for a small group of customers on iOS, and it’s already been noticed in keeping with multiple tweets from customers which can be a part of the check group.

Twitter writes that iOS customers might even see upvote and downvotes in a number of totally different types (up and down arrows, a coronary heart icon and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons) and that it’s testing the function to “understand the types of replies you find relevant in a convo, so we can work on ways to show more of them.” Currently votes usually are not public.

While Twitter hasn’t mentioned if it plans so as to add up and down voting as a everlasting function (or how voting impacts what you see in your feed), there are clear parallels to be drawn to Reddit, which options upvoting and downvoting as a approach of surfacing a subreddit’s favourite replies, responses, and posts. Twitter says that for now upvotes and downvotes don’t affect the rating of replies.

Twitter’s toyed with other forms of tweet interactions previously, together with reactions that appeared to mimic the emoji reactions Facebook makes use of for Facebook posts and Messenger messages. Twitter’s product lead Kayvon Beykpour has additionally mentioned that the corporate deliberate to work on dislikes final yr, claiming the function was one in all Twitter’s many “top priorities” in response to a user’s tweet.