In a recent update that has sparked significant backlash, users of the social media platform X are expressing their frustration over changes to the platform’s blocking feature. The announcement, made ...

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Just 24 hours after Elon Musk's X announced changes to how the block function works, Bluesky gained 500,000 users. Credit: Hakan Nural/Anadolu via Getty Images Essentially, a block on X will now just ...

X, formerly Twitter, is now letting blocked users see posts made by the people who blocked them. “We’re starting to launch the block function update,” X’s engineering team wrote yesterday. X ...

Elon Musk has followed through with his vow to allow blocked users on X to see posts of accounts that blocked them. The controversial policy shift, announced at the end of September, has gone into ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. X, formerly Twitter, recently announced it's changing the way the social media platform's block ...

On Sept. 23, Elon Musk, the owner of X, announced a significant change to the platform’s blocking feature, stirring up a wave of user reactions. This new policy allows users who have been blocked to ...

To justify the change, X said the block functionality could previously be "used by users to share and hide harmful or private information about those they've blocked." The change will allow people who ...

A hot potato: The block function on X has now joined the long list of things that have changed since Elon Musk took over and killed Twitter. Now, blocking someone won't prevent them from seeing your ...

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