Twitter Changed Its Policy On Blocking Accounts... And Changed It Back Within A Few Hours
In a quick about-face, Twitter launched and then reversed a new method for blocking users.
Without any fanfare, Twitter made some significant changes to how its blocking feature works on Friday. And within a few hours, the company reverted back to the original block functionality.
For a few hours on Friday, when a users blocked another user, they were essentially muting them. The blocked user could still see the activity of the blocker – from following them to reading their tweets.
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