San Francisco, California - In case you didn't think Twitter was already full of enough negativity, the platform is now thinking of introducing a "dislike" button of sorts.

Twitter says that the feature is more of a tech tool for calibrating what Tweets are relevant for each user, and the downvote counts won't be visible to the original posters or other users.

Reddit users are familiar with the concept of downvoting in forums in order to boost most relevant, useful, or popular posts to the top of a thread.

MacRumors confirms that Twitter's experimental "dislike" feature would be more of a tool for the platform to understand what responses, tweets, and information are relevant for each user to best match their tastes.

Additionally, so as not to introduce even more hate to users' feeds, the number of downvotes won't even be visible to anyone, nor the fact that they've been downvoted at all.

Various platforms like Facebook and Instagram have been also trying out hiding likes altogether in order to prevent harassment and help users have more positive experiences.

In contrast, Facebook's current array of responses including like, love, laughter, anger, sadness, and shock are visible to anyone, and are even categorized in a list of names showing who chose to respond and with which emotion, not allowing for anonymity.

The often-cited issue with making these responses visible to all is that perception of a post can be swayed when it's obvious that others have already reacted negatively to it.

For Twitter however, the upvotes will still be counted as likes.

So far, the downvoting feature is only available to a few iOS users.