A screenshot from Twitter Support shows a downvote for a snarky reply to a person's question about New York City dining. People with access to the downvote button can use it on any tweet.

Twitter's new downvote button isn't available for everyone. Here's where to check if you have access and how the platform recommends using it.

Twitter says early tests showed the reason most users clicked the down arrow was because the reply was perceived as offensive, or because they perceived it as not relevant, or both.

Twitter didn't say how many people had access to the test but said that it's a "global audience." The feature could eventually affect what tweets get shown in which order on the site and its app ...

We clicked the "like" button on several tweets ourselves and saw that it did not change into an "X." Moreover, we found no official statements from Twitter, nor any reputable sources ...

Those buttons include the "reply" button, the classic "retweet" button, which was renamed to "repost" after Twitter's name was changed to X, as well as the heart-shaped "like" button.

Elon Musk is removing like, report, and reply buttons and counts from posts in the timeline on X. Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Another big change that no one asked for is coming ...

Twitter barred anyone from interacting with some tweets from President Trump on Saturday, disabling the like, reply and retweet features before later reactivating them. “We try to prevent a ...

Twitter could be getting ready to make conversations easier to manage through a new Twitter hide reply tool. The test for the hide tool is now available in the U.S. and Japan, but there's no word ...

Twitter appears to be testing a new "dislike" or thumbs down button for tweets, which is designed to let people downvote replies. Twitter says that the feature is available for "some" iOS users.

X's downvoting button: X, under the leadership of Elon Musk, is already moving forward in plans to introduce a new downvoting feature that will aim at refining how responses are ranked on its ...