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Twitter Testing Internal 'Dislike' Button for Tweet Replies
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Maybe they should add it. But they should also remove the public visibility of the count for each type of vote (upvote/downvote). It would also be interesting to see the statistics of how people respond to posts if the number wasn’t publicly visible. I wonder how many people “like” posts because it may already have a lot of likes. The “dislike” would probably have the same statistic.
My Guess is it's a tool for marketing. They will use it to target you with advertising since it will be hard with apple and google blocking ad IDs.
Yeah, don’t believe what you read on tech blogs. Twitter is very much relevant even if the wannabe techies are so proud of themselves for closing their accounts.
Exactly. Platforms hate downvote buttons, because they hurt engagement, shine a light on disinformation, and don't add to revenues. That's why MR, as well as most other platforms, got rid of it. Twitter will never add Dislike as a publicly viewable metric.
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I got picked to test this out. And this is the message I get evey once in a while. But I took that as the author of the post won’t know if I downvote them while it’s in beta testing. I would assume if they do roll this out. That you’ll be able to see if you get downvoted then.🤷🏻♂️
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Downvotes (or thumbs down). If the Twitter-verse wan't already toxic, antagonistic and tribalized.... this will exacerbate the situation even more.
Removing the downvote from public visibility pretty much makes any observation of how people respond or it - null and void. Can’t respond to stimulus you’re not aware of in order to devise any metric of your response. Maybe as a placebo to publicly available.
honestly youth would loose their minds probably a significant increase of suicide could occur. Like a junkie going through withdrawals, not many get out even with another addiction no matter how minute taking its place.
If I listened to tech blogs, I'd be making some very weird choices like using a Windows Phone back when those existed.
It's impossible to save IMO. The original point of Twitter was for fun or following celebrities, then it became about news and politics, which it shouldn't be. New users are even suggested to follow the POTUS, some news sites, a bunch of senators.
Basically anything with highly connected people, somewhat global popularity scores, and the likes/dislikes that factor into that will favor simple and negative messages like hatred and mistrust. There's social science backing that theory up. I tried to make my own platform that addressed this issue and was also pretty nice in user tests, but I couldn't market it ofc.
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They are starting to get rid of downvotes on places like YouTube because disgusting content coming out of the establishment always gets mega downvoted, showing how pretty much nobody is onboard with their joke of an agenda.
Oh yeah, way too late. There’s no stuffing that turd back in the bag.
That’s noble of you to try a platform that addressed some of that nightmare. Honest. Has me curious about your efforts. And I’m not one bit surprised it wasn’t marketable. Social media is a cancer. Which is a shame as it does hold such amazing potential that is 99% not tapped. Like with any new tool, users default to THE lowest common usage, for a while, before seeing/understanding the real potential. And that potential may never be realized. One thing that might help, would somehow require users real names tied to their social media account. Yes, I say this as someone using a goofy pseudonym here to another person doing the same. But I would be happy to drop the monikers if it meant a healthier, more civil social journey. It’s interesting, and by “interesting” I mean “weak,” how brazen users can be when hiding behind an made up user name. I suspect the hate, vitriol, and overall garbage would drop 75% if users had to use real names.
Anyway, not happening. These nightmares are here to stay and will continue quietly eroding society. It’s why I don’t have any of these apps on my devices.
There are humans out there doing whatever cringey thing they can just to garner more views/likes to get fame status and make money if possible, it's also a gateway to other sites where one's potential dignity is auctioned off to the highest bidder. I swear we're closer and closer to the Society game from the Gamer movie becoming a lived experience.
My experience wasn't that it was too pure to market. It's just super hard, almost to the point of being foolish, to market social media apps in general because new users have to know people on there to want to join. People at my university were downloading it based on flyers I put up myself, but not in groups, so they didn't know what to do. Also, I was just a CS student and software engineer with regular social skills, not a super popular and/or pushy marketing guy who will get people on. My friends joined in and helped design and market it, which was good, but it wasn't nearly enough. It's my fault for not assembling a better team.
Anyway, it's a link-sharing app. I used it with my friends and family for a while for news and really enjoyed it. It does a few simple things differently than usual to make things spread a lot more like in real life, where people are connected but not overly so.
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