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Users can mute users they do not wish to interact with, block accounts from viewing their tweets and remove accounts from their followers list. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Users can tweet via the Twitter website, compatible external applications (such as for smartphones ), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. [ 4 ]
Elon Musk set off a firestorm Friday by announcing that Twitter, now called X, would “delete” the service’s longstanding user-blocking feature — raising the prospect that, as a result, the ...
On Friday, Twitter — without notice — suddenly blocked access to the website for anyone who isn’t signed in as a registered user. Many people were confused about the change, wondering ...
"Shadow banning" became popularized in 2018 as a conspiracy theory when Twitter shadow-banned some Republicans. [23] In late July 2018, Vice News found that several supporters of the US Republican Party no longer appeared in the auto-populated drop-down search menu on Twitter, thus limiting their visibility when being searched for; Vice News alleged that this was a case of shadow-banning.
The court ruled unanimously that officials can be deemed "state actors" when making use of social media and can therefore face litigation if they block or mute a member of the public.
Twitter users were also blocked from sharing links to Mastodon. [498] Reinstated on 17 December. [499] Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) Freelance journalist Initially suspended for seven days for "doxxing"; All accounts had a history of reporting on Musk or his companies. [500] The accounts were reinstated on 17 December. [501] Drew Harwell (@drewharwell)
Another political figure that has gone under fire for blocking Twitter users is President Donald Trump, after a federal court upheld a ruling last month that the action was unconstitutional and ...
An example of the Scunthorpe problem in Wikipedia because of a regular expression identifying "cunt" in the username. The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning.