So this actually happened. A user asked for a dislike button on X, Nikita Bier the platform’s Head of Product replied “Give me 60 seconds,” and eight minutes later, people were posting screenshots of a dislike button sitting right next to the like icon on replies.
Bier’s response came at around 9:10 am, according to a post by Insider Wire. By 9:18 am, the feature was already showing up on select accounts. Make of that what you will, but the obvious read is that this thing was already built and ready to go the tweet just gave someone an excuse to turn it on.
Not a simple thumbs-down
Don’t expect a YouTube-style dislike counter. That’s not what this is. On accounts where it’s showing up, tapping the dislike button on a reply opens a “reply feedback” prompt. Users can then pick a reason: “Incorrect or misleading,” “AI generated,” or “Spam.” The counts are private there’s no public tally and the feedback is apparently intended to quietly feed into how X ranks replies.
The idea, it seems, is less about letting people vent and more about giving the algorithm something useful to work with. Spam and low-quality replies get pushed down; the good stuff surfaces higher. Whether that works in practice is a different question.
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Who’s actually seeing it
Right now, this is a limited rollout. Plenty of users have gone looking for the button and found nothing. Early reports suggest it started with a small test group before expanding, which is standard practice for a server-side feature test. It’s also currently limited to replies not main posts.
It’s been coming for a while
This isn’t X waking up one morning and shipping a feature on a whim. References to a dislike-like feature had already turned up in the app’s code, and a broken heart icon was spotted in design files earlier. What happened this week looks less like a surprise launch and more like a test that was already scheduled getting a very public debut. When it rolls out to everyone? No word yet. For now, only some users have it.
