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Blocking is going to be deleted from Twitter (lemmy.world)
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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 100 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Conversation at Twitter HQ:

  • Staff: How can we increase engagement?
  • crickets
  • Elmu: I've got it! We'll make stalking easier!
  • Staff: Uhhh
  • Mush (now halfway out the door): Have it done by Sunday.
[–] Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 60 points 2 years ago

Alternatively:

Staff: Uh, the blocking feature is having some issues.

Emu: Well fix it.

Staff: No one knows how that part works and you fired the guy who wrote it. And then you insulted him.

Emu: Meh, just remove the whole feature.

[–] notatoad@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My guess as to how it went:

  • random twitter troll: “haha Elon you’re probably the most blocked person on this site”
  • Elon: “not anymore”
[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago

That's how it went the last time he brought the subject up. During that hole period where we learned he had the engineers tweak the algorithm to 10x his visibility in the feed.