How long until he removes that feature? Twitter is a dumpster fire.
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Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
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Omggggg I was just thinking the other day that this would probably be his next step since so many people are blocking him and other blue checks 😂 I have many words for Elon but, alas, MacRumors won't let me use them.
Also thanks to MR for continuing to use "Twitter." So annoying to see how many media orgs are going along with the ridiculous rebranding.
Also thanks to MR for continuing to use "Twitter." So annoying to see how many media orgs are going along with the ridiculous rebranding.
With this change, I'm sure the mute button will be removed as well, which is annoying because I muted Musk long ago. Can't stand to see his posts.
How to make a small fortune.
Start with a big one a buy Twitter.
Then F it up big time.
Start with a big one a buy Twitter.
Then F it up big time.
Close, but the big difference is Nero didn't actively torch Rome.Its like Nero watching twitter burn down.
It funny that now, if you are switch between apps in iOS the title now looks like XX, and because it's at the top it looks like the old cartoons where they show you who's dead by places X's on their eyes. 😁
Next month: Blocking for paid accounts.
I’ve thought this a few times this year, but it’s become increasingly apparent that heavy twitter posters are so hopelessly hooked that they’ll keep coming back no matter what he does. In particular this includes most journalists and news figures, who will continue to give it free publicity in their articles and coverage thus upholding the idea of it being ‘important’.
This is like watching Britney Spears self-destruct several years ago. It might be difficult for some to feel sorry for a billionaire, much the same it was difficult to feel sorry for a centi-millionaire pop star.
But damn...Someone needs to step in and help this guy. I think he needs a nice, long sabbatical.
At this point, I wonder if he's just saying crazy stuff like this to get people talking about his social network 😅
Anyone with an iPhone can still have Twitter on their homescreen. Make a shortcut that opens the app, put it on your homescreen and set its icon to be the bird. You get a notification saying X is open but that just reminds me how much of a bellend the owner is.
Twitter and Elon Musk are two piles of trash.
I don't use Twitter really, but I'm getting closer and closer to just deleting my account altogether.
twitter has turned into a soup sandwich.
Twitter or "X" owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be "deleted as a feature" in the future, as it "makes no sense."
Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a reason to block someone instead of muting someone on the social network. Mute and block are two fundamentally different features on Twitter. Mute prevents you from seeing content from Twitter users, while block prevents other people from seeing your content, following you, and interacting with you.
According to Musk, muting will be the sole way to filter content on Twitter in the future, though there will still be a blocking feature for direct messages. Removing block will allow spam accounts and harassers to interact with people that would have otherwise blocked them as muting is far less restrictive.
If you mute an account, for example, that account can still follow you, see your content, reply to it, and favorite, retweet, and quote your tweets. Their replies to tweets won't be visible to you, but they'll still be able to reply. You won't get notifications for their replies unless you follow them, but if someone replies to the reply from the muted person, you will see that notification and be alerted to the conversation. For many users, the loss of the block function would be detrimental.
It is not clear if Musk will follow through on plans to remove the blocking feature, especially with the backlash that Musk's announcement has created. As with many of Musk's announcements, there is no word on when blocking might be removed.
Article Link: Elon Musk Plans to Remove Option to Block People on Twitter
Twitter no longer exists. I have seen some news sites referring to as X (fka Twitter) which seems to be the best approach.
Of course Elon wants this, because he has blocked dozens of people for saying bad things about Tesla, or SpaceX or Twitter (sorry X).
The best way to solve this is to delete Twitter from your life, makes for a great relaxing life.
The best way to solve this is to delete Twitter from your life, makes for a great relaxing life.
So glad I deleted my account already, he will probably stop users from doing that next 😀
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#safetyAlso removing the block feature is against both Apple and Google's TOS for their respective app stores
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#safety
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9876937
Galaxy Brain Elon: Cant lose any advertising revenue when my app cant reach anyone to begin with!
That's missing the point. Mute has the function of "blocking abusive users".
The two things Block adds over Mute are
- you don't get to read the other person's texts.
- you don't get the (extremely satisfying to some people) feeling that you have "cancelled" this person (instantiated in Twitter by the fact that muted people aren't told they are muted, but blocked people are told they have been blocked by whoever)
Neither of these are relevant to what Apple is saying in that document.
- If you want an environment with micro-management of who can or can't see your publishings, well Twitter doesn't promise that, and Apple doesn't demand it.
- And Apple only cares that people can avoid seeing content from specific other people, not the additional psychological weirdness of who gets kicks out of "sending a message" that someone else has been blocked.
It's almost like there is a new Elon avatar or synth that just wants to outdo last week's Elon. "What throttling? Hold my beer."
Not even remotely close to accomplishing the same thing.
Is he actively trying to tank the company so he can liquidate it and write it off as a tax loss?