After threatening to change the way the blocking features works for more than a year, Elon Musk’s plan finally took effect this week, as X users who have been blocked by other accounts can now view those users’ posts. The X engineering team account announced that the change had begun on Saturday, Nov. 2 , and earlier this week, CNET was able to verify that the change had taken place for multiple test accounts.
While blocked users can now see your X posts, they cannot reply to them or repost them, nor can they send you direct messages. Privacy advocates and domestic violence survivors have strongly objected to the change to the blocking features, and it’s not clear yet whether it will run afoul of the app stores — Google Play Store and Apple’s App Store both require “user-generated content” to including blocking features — but if you want to prevent specific people from seeing your posts, you’ll now either need to lock down your X account completely or find a different social media service.
If you’ve decided you want to leave X/Twitter because of the change in block or for any reason, we’ll explain your options, including whether you can change your mind about deleting your account. For more, learn how phone calls on X work and how to stop X from training AI on your posts. It only takes a few steps to delete your X account from your phone. Note that before you close your account, you may want to create an archive of your tweets. And if you’re interested, you can also download all your X posts.
- Os usuários bloqueados podem agora visualizar as postagens de outros usuários do X;
- Apesar disso, eles não podem responder, repostar ou enviar mensagens diretas;
- Se desejar prevenir que pessoas específicas vejam suas postagens, será necessário bloquear completamente a sua conta no X ou procurar por outro serviço de mídia social.