Blocked customers will have the ability to see your posts

The times of the “@[insert username] blocked you” web page seem like over. X proprietor Elon Musk introduced a brand new change to permitting blocked customers to see posts of the accounts that blocked them.

Blocked accounts nonetheless gained’t have the ability to work together with these accounts however they’ll have the ability to see their posts. A supply from X informed the brand new blocked entry function is being applied as a result of customers can already see and work together with accounts which have blocked them by switching to a non-blocked account.

Musk has wished to disable the block function on X for awhile now. Greater than a 12 months in the past, he first expressed (or technically, Twitter) aside from direct messages. He wrote that blocking would turn out to be “deleted as a ‘function’” in addition to saying “It is senseless.”

Final Could, introduced it will implement the blocked viewer change to the platform with out together with a strong implementation or rollout date. The submit mentioned the change could be applied to provide customers with blocked accounts the power to “establish and report any potential unhealthy content material that you just beforehand couldn’t view.”