![]() Their tweets don't show up, and clicking on a reply no longer brings up their tweet in the conversation thread. Profile view: I can't see it if I try and visit, it says they've blocked me. Twitter for desktop / browser (ie on Firefox) especially if they're different from mine. I've done a quick test with a couple of accounts and apps and, thanks to a handy alternative medicine quack who's blocked me and who helpfully provides a testing ground, I present my results below ) Feel free to share your findings too in the comments. More detailed information for block function enthusiasts (can't just be me, surely!) Please let anyone that needs to know, know, thanks. Remember that third party apps (Echofon for iPhone, Twicca for Android etc) often behave very differently from official apps and can let people you've blocked see your tweets.Įvery time Twitter updates block I see a lot of tweets from people commenting that others now can't see their tweets - but they can, always have been able to and always will be able to. If you've blocked someone you'll no longer see their tweets, even if retweeted - this is a new and positive step for most people. On official Twitter apps such as desktop / browser Twitter and Tweetdeck (owned by Twitter I believe) it seems that you can no longer see anything, no profiles, no tweets in search. I used to think I had a reasonable handle on Twitter's block but how it is implemented (how it appears to the user) has become increasingly app- and platform-dependent so it's really not possible to say with much confidence what someone will see if they're blocked / if you've blocked them. The conflict between people's own experiences of using Twitter, the information Twitter gives about the block (and other news reports) and what is actually possible when using the service is the reason for this update / post. ![]() ![]() The only way to stop someone (even one person) from seeing your tweets is to make your account private. Twitter's released a new update in the last few days (people can now retweet themselves, which might prove interesting) and they've really tightened up the block function - but claims that 'blocked people can't see your tweets' are, and always will be, incorrect. Other workarounds include using a third party app to view your tweets, or using a secondary account (or even searching on Google). People can always see your public tweets, even if you've blocked them, by just logging out. ![]()
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