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I'd wager this is in response to the campaign going around to block every blue checkmark. Elon can't let his crowd of sycophants feel like they're being ignored.
It keeps getting worse it's almost funny
Elons probably tired of everyone blocking him. If everyone blocks him, then no one can with this new “feature” lol
So how will they comply with court orders requiring that function? /smh
I only see this as going well for him/Twitter.
Not really, it’s definitely going to be interesting to watch it go up in flames 🍿
Bro it's like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads
Wow. He really is a tool.
I’m happier since I don’t use twitter. Thanks Elon, you’re making things easier for us.
Is this meant to be the final response to #BlocktheBlue
I wonder where the fandoms and the artist communities are going to go now that they just opened the floodgates for the massive amount of harassment those communities tend to deal with.
I presume some are going to return to Tumblr, but hopefully they make the switch to Mastodon.
This level of nob gobbling takes focus.
One step away from A Clockwork Orange where users' eyes will be held open so they are forced to see fashy-curious content
This kind of garbage is exactly why I don't use Twitter anymore. I don't know what is wrong with Musk, but something is up in his head.
3rd-party Twitter clients are going to have quite a spike in popularity then, just need to implement clientside blocking. It won't prevent the person blocked from seeing your posts, but that's kind of impossible to enforce on a public platform, anyway.
Twitter is killing those, too: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/22/23564460/twitter-third-party-apps-history-contributions