{"id":9034,"date":"2021-07-23T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2021-07-26T08:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:32:57","slug":"twitter-experiments-with-upvote-and-downvote-buttons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/twitter-experiments-with-upvote-and-downvote-buttons\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Experiments With Upvote and Downvote Buttons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As part of its research &#8220;to understand the types of replies you find relevant,&#8221; Twitter announced that some Twitter users on iOS will see up and down votes on comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The feature uses thumbs or arrows to display voting results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company said the downvote would not represent a &#8220;dislike&#8221; button or affect the ranking of tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It further explained that the feature will not be visible to other users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of now, it will be an experiment for some iOS users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some have pointed out the similarities to Reddit&#8217;s voting feature, including Reddit itself, which responded to Twitter&#8217;s tweet with a gif.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57923215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in the BBC.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter announced that some Twitter users on iOS will see up and down votes on comments as the company experiments with a new feature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-9034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networks","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9072,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9034\/revisions\/9072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}