Twitter is that social network that has been dying for many years but seems more alive than ever. While it is true that the "metaverse" that hides within Twitter seems to have little or nothing to do with real life in most cases, it sometimes serves as one of the most immediate sources of news and information that we can have. .
The company is now working on improving its application for iOS by offering the possibility of sending different reactions to a tweet as well as "negative votes" to some responses. In this way, Twitter aims to help its algorithm to offer users only information relevant to their interests.
As we have seen on the analyst's Twitter @nima_owji, an arrow will appear pointing downwards in a response that it will be valued as a "negative vote" and will serve the user receiving the response as well as the users who observe the thread or conversation to discard information that could be irrelevant or harmful. In this way, the algorithm will improve the way in which it offers the content to all users, showing only the one that produces the greatest interest or is understood to be of the highest quality.
#Twitter is now able to store the data about your downvotes which means it's coming! I guess they'll use these data in order to make the “Sort” feature work.
Also, they've changed its position. pic.twitter.com/21G3SdsU2i
- Nima Owji (@nima_owji) November 23, 2021
But it could be said that the thing does not stop there, where until now the "like" button is located, a drop-down of options will appear as it already happens on Facebook so that we can show a somewhat more precise reaction to said tweet, in the list of options will appear: Thoughtful, sad, laughter, applause and heart. In this way, new functions will appear in the Twitter options menu that will help us discard irrelevant information or tweets depending on whether we ask the social network to show us all the answers or only those relevant to us. A grain of sand for Twitter to stop being the toxic dung in which it often becomes.