Twitter: Soon emojis to react to tweets?

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Twitter explores the use of emojis to react to a tweet, according to information from

Techcrunch

relayed by

Presse-Citron

.

The American social network has polled some of its users to find out if they would like to have a wider range of reactions to a message.

They would thus be able to react to a publication with several types of emojis, as is the case on Facebook.

"We are exploring additional ways for people to express themselves in conversations taking place on Twitter," confirmed a spokesperson for Twitter, quoted by the American magazine.

Per this survey I just took, Twitter is considering adding emoji reaction sets and downvoting.

I think either of those might be what forces me off this site.

pic.twitter.com/uEgtmrSk7F

- john d moore (@ jdm0079) March 18, 2021

Each emotion has its own emoji

Several emojis were submitted to Internet users during this investigation.

We find there the heart, the "cry of laughter", the interest, the sadness, the impressed, united and angry emoji.

Then others were put face to face, the impressed emoji being replaced by that of a flame and the solidarity emoji by applause.

Twitter also polled Internet users to find out if they wanted to give a positive rating or show their dislike for a post by means of a thumbs up or down, a 100 in green or red, or a green arrow. up or a red down.

This is reminiscent of the appreciative or negative voting mechanism implemented on Reddit.

An "exploratory work"

Twitter fears that by offering to judge a tweet, some may attract a torrent of negative appreciations.

He therefore asked Internet users to explain how they would react if their publication was rejected by members of the platform.

This is why the American social network will give itself time, specifying that this is only an "exploratory work".

In any case, Twitter clarified that the emojis, if they were validated, would not replace the "heart".

This icon appeared in 2015 to replace that of the star which was used to add a tweet to favorites.

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