I'm of several minds about this change. On the one hand, I am rather fond of the 'original' Twitter layout. You had your feed of people you followed displayed in chronological order, retweets would show a post to your followers, likes showed support and served as bookmarks. I still keep my timeline in chronological mode, and I don't really care for any change they've made from that original standard. The up/downvote system will likely corrupt that further.
On the other hand, Twitter has gained a reputation (rather deservedly) of being one of the more toxic social media sites. Personally, I'm happy to simply unfollow anyone that starts to get on my nerves, but it seems to be enough of an issue for most people that they need to do something to address the issue. There are frankly too many tweets to keep an eye on, so this adds a community moderation system, which I suspect will be more successful (always hiding the up/down numbers would be even better).
On the other other hand, I'm not sure it'll be enough. One of the most glaring reasons why Twitter has a worse reputation than say Reddit (arguably) is that there is no separation between tweets of different topic. If there is a morally corrupt section of Reddit, it is at least in theory contained to a single subreddit, while on Twitter it is available to everyone. I'm not sure what the solution here is. I would be somewhat interested in seeing an addition of feeds categorized by topics, but that might be too drastic of a change.
On the other hand, Twitter has gained a reputation (rather deservedly) of being one of the more toxic social media sites. Personally, I'm happy to simply unfollow anyone that starts to get on my nerves, but it seems to be enough of an issue for most people that they need to do something to address the issue. There are frankly too many tweets to keep an eye on, so this adds a community moderation system, which I suspect will be more successful (always hiding the up/down numbers would be even better).
On the other other hand, I'm not sure it'll be enough. One of the most glaring reasons why Twitter has a worse reputation than say Reddit (arguably) is that there is no separation between tweets of different topic. If there is a morally corrupt section of Reddit, it is at least in theory contained to a single subreddit, while on Twitter it is available to everyone. I'm not sure what the solution here is. I would be somewhat interested in seeing an addition of feeds categorized by topics, but that might be too drastic of a change.