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> including "automatically block accounts under X days old that @ me" How can a new user (who isn't a harasser) engage with the Twitter service if they get au

> including "automatically block accounts under X days old that @ me" How can a new user (who isn't a harasser) engage with the Twitter service if they get auto-blocked when they try to engage with anyone on the platform?

eropple 10y ago
Personally? I interact with people I know, not #brands. And I do that by following, not by @'ing out of the blue. Everybody I know does the same. If somebody with a name I recognize follows me, I'm gonna follow them back and @'ing is fine.
- liquidise 10y ago
  What you are describing is a tinder approach to twitter, which serve fundamentally different roles in the online social sphere. I understand that is how you and yours use twitter, but extrapolating that behavior across hundreds of millions of users is almost certainly hasty.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  > I interact with people I know I prefer have far less public services for this. Feels like airing dirty laundry to do it on twitter
epistasis 10y ago
> when they try to engage with _anyone_ on the platform But it's not anyone, it's only those that are under assault and have turned on the block. How many people are going to do that? Only the people that need it to continue using Twitter.
rhizome 10y ago
If "engage" means "HA HA U SUK TRUMP UR AZZ MAKE ME A SANDWICH" then maybe Twitter isn't a good place for them.
- strken 10y ago
  What if engage means "I want to blow the whistle on something, can you get me in touch with a journalist?" for 0.01% of blocked messages and "u suk vote yrump" for the rest?
  - nikdaheratik 10y ago
    Well then there's email, phone, text message, snail mail, fax, carrier pigeon, whatever for that 0.01%.
  - rhizome 10y ago
    "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" comes to mind.
- intoverflow2 10y ago
  I clearly said not a harasser... > maybe Twitter isn't a good place for them could have fooled me because if you built a platform purely for harassment it would resemble twitter closely

eropple 10y ago

Personally? I interact with people I know, not #brands. And I do that by following, not by @'ing out of the blue. Everybody I know does the same. If somebody with a name I recognize follows me, I'm gonna follow them back and @'ing is fine.

liquidise 10y ago
What you are describing is a tinder approach to twitter, which serve fundamentally different roles in the online social sphere. I understand that is how you and yours use twitter, but extrapolating that behavior across hundreds of millions of users is almost certainly hasty.
intoverflow2 10y ago
> I interact with people I know I prefer have far less public services for this. Feels like airing dirty laundry to do it on twitter

epistasis 10y ago

> when they try to engage with _anyone_ on the platform But it's not anyone, it's only those that are under assault and have turned on the block. How many people are going to do that? Only the people that need it to continue using Twitter.

rhizome 10y ago

If "engage" means "HA HA U SUK TRUMP UR AZZ MAKE ME A SANDWICH" then maybe Twitter isn't a good place for them.

strken 10y ago
What if engage means "I want to blow the whistle on something, can you get me in touch with a journalist?" for 0.01% of blocked messages and "u suk vote yrump" for the rest?
- nikdaheratik 10y ago
  Well then there's email, phone, text message, snail mail, fax, carrier pigeon, whatever for that 0.01%.
- rhizome 10y ago
  "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" comes to mind.
intoverflow2 10y ago
I clearly said not a harasser... > maybe Twitter isn't a good place for them could have fooled me because if you built a platform purely for harassment it would resemble twitter closely