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Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment
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He's not a smart man, but he knows what love is
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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I mean, why would you be surprised at anything at this point?
I've blocked every ad I've ever seen on the app. I haven't used it in a while and I doubt I'll ever go back now.
The only thing left that I use it for is getting alerts about live police chases so I can tune in. Ill leave that going until those people move to other platforms.
You could see this coming the moment we started blocking blue checkmarks.
So…. You just get hit with ad bots all day long?
Pre Twitter takeover this would have been surprising. Now seems par for the course.
Is advertising revenue so important to them they're willing to sacrifice literally everything else for it?
If it's not easy to use reddit, who will use reddit?
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Isn't this because he doesn't want to pay Google's bill that they already signed a deal with? I hope Twitter implodes and Elon loses millions
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It's sad seeing Twitter take such a nose dive (more so then it already has). I met quite a fee friends on the platform and, despite it's many, many, MANY flaws, was still nice to be on when you interacted with friends. I hope my friends start using more decentralized social media soon with how much of a toxic environment Elon is trying to foster
It's unclear if he's distinguishing posts from the users that make them.
Blocking users is important, but posts less so (but I still loved to block posts if they were obnoxious and kept getting shared)
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I reckon he's just really really fucking short-sited tbh. He seems to forget that there are people on twitter, or were tbh.
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Battle royale!
The source showed the tweet as an image, so I went into the sewer waters from Fritter. And, yep, it's genuinely there.
It's not even that I believe him unable to have such bad takes: it's not the first time. I have just seen a few fake ones. But the fake ones aren't even needed!