Twitter is working on new upvote and downvote reactions for tweets to accompany the usual options to retweet and reply. Twitter confirmed it was testing the feature for a small group of users on iOS, and it’s already been spotted according to multiple tweets from users that are part of the test group.

Twitter writes that iOS users may see upvote and downvotes in several different styles (up and down arrows, a heart icon and a down arrow, and thumbs up and thumbs down icons) and that it’s testing the feature 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 are not public.

While Twitter hasn’t said if it plans to add up and down voting as a permanent feature (or how voting affects what you see in your feed), there are clear parallels to be drawn to Reddit, which features upvoting and downvoting as a way of surfacing a subreddit’s favourite replies, responses, and posts. Twitter says that for now though upvotes and downvotes don’t impact the order of tweets.

It is 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 the order of replies as it happens on other platforms including Quora and Reddit.

Twitter’s toyed with other kinds of tweet interactions in the past, including reactions that appeared to mimic the emoji reactions Facebook uses for Facebook posts and Messenger messages. Twitter’s product lead Kayvon Beykpour has also said that the company planned to work on dislikes last year, claiming the feature was one of Twitter’s many “top priorities” in response to a user’s tweet.

Twitter also said that the feature is just a test for research right now, Twitter has not finalised rolling it out yet. Twitter clarified that this is not a dislike button.

As of now, only YouTube has a dislike button that shows the number of likes and dislikes in a video whereas platforms like Reddit and Quora have downvotes and upvotes buttons. No other social media apps including Facebook or Instagram have explored the idea of adding a dislike button. While YouTube’s dislike button is visible to all, Twitter does not want to show downvotes.