{"id":12839,"date":"2023-08-18T18:38:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/news\/elon-musk-says-users-on-x-formerly-twitter-will-lose-ability-to-block-unwanted-followers-eliminating-key-safety-feature\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T18:38:33","slug":"elon-musk-says-users-on-x-formerly-twitter-will-lose-ability-to-block-unwanted-followers-eliminating-key-safety-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/isafespend.com\/?p=12839","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says users on X, formerly Twitter, will lose ability to block unwanted followers, eliminating key safety feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\"><span class=\"HighlightShare-hidden\" style=\"top:0;left:0\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"group\">\n<p>Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer be able to block comments from unwanted followers, according to a post by X owner Elon Musk on Friday, eliminating what&#8217;s long been viewed as a key safety feature. Blocking will only be available for direct messages, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Block is going to be deleted as a &#8216;feature&#8217;, except for DMs,&#8221; Musk wrote Friday. He was responding to a post from the account of <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-2\">Tesla<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\" data-testid=\"dropdown-btn\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"><\/span><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span> Owners Silicon Valley, asking, &#8220;Is there ever a reason to block vs mute someone?&#8221; The group behind that account promotes the electric car company, where Musk is CEO.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since acquiring Twitter last year for $44 billion, Musk has overhauled the company, laying off many employees, reinstating previously banned accounts and recently rebranding the company and platform as X. He didn&#8217;t provide a reason or a time frame for eliminating the block function, only saying in a follow-up response that &#8220;it makes no sense&#8221; and that the mute function will still be available.<\/p>\n<p>Users have been able to use the block function to make sure that hateful content and harassment doesn&#8217;t show up in their feed in response to their posts. The mute feature just keeps the individual user from seeing the undesired responses, but doesn&#8217;t eliminate them from others&#8217; feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users have also long employed the block feature in boycotts and to avoid seeing ads from specific brands or promoters on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, an investor in the new Twitter alongside Musk, said in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cz_binance\/status\/1692571034354946265\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> that the company should focus its attention elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;X should really solve the bots &amp; spam problems before removing blocks,&#8221; wrote Zhao, whose company owns one of the world&#8217;s largest crypto exchanges. &#8220;Just my 0.02.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#8217;s Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong> Elon Musk is posting incessantly to distract focus from his business<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107288210\">\n<div role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" id=\"Placeholder-ArticleBody-Video-107288210\" class=\"PlaceHolder-wrapper\" data-vilynx-id=\"7000312304\" data-test=\"VideoPlaceHolder\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-videoEmbed\" id=\"InlineVideo-0\" data-test=\"InlineVideo\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"InlineVideo-inlineThumbnailContainer\"><span class=\"InlineVideo-videoButton\"><\/span><span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/08\/18\/elon-musk-says-x-users-will-be-losing-the-ability-to-block-content-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of X, formerly known as Twitter, will no longer be able to block comments from unwanted followers, according to a post by X owner Elon Musk on Friday, eliminating what&#8217;s long been viewed as a key safety feature. 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