Twitter Soft Block functionality is implemented for each web user. The latest Twitter feature is currently available to all web users of the social media platform.
The new feature, called soft blocking, allows users to remove a subscriber without blocking the person. The subscriber you remove from your list is not notified of its removal.
However, your old subscriber has the option to follow you again. The software lockout feature is one of several new and upcoming Twitter features that provide users with greater security and the ability to choose how they want to interact with other users.
Twitter’s software blocking feature has started to be implemented for web users of the social media platform. This new feature allows a user to delete a subscriber without having to block the person.
Introducing Soft Block feature
Twitter announced through its Twitter Support account. Access to this feature is fairly straightforward. All you have to do is go to your profile, click on the subscribers, then on the three dots and select the option “Remove this subscriber.”
Now every Twitter web user can ‘soft block’ annoying followers https://t.co/kfa0KpiD6j pic.twitter.com/XyLa8IFkzA
— The Verge (@verge) October 11, 2021
It “allows a user to see your tweets still and send you direct messages, but they won’t see your tweets on yours.” The software blocking feature also gives the follower you are removing the ability to follow you again.
The new software blocking feature available to web users described by The Verge as “Twitter’s latest feature to give users greater control over their experience on the platform to help fight abuse and bullying.
The report cites Twitter’s Safe Mode feature as another example of this effort. Twitter began testing the new feature last month. The security mode feature “temporarily blocks account abuse.” According to the report, no date has been specified for the full deployment of the feature to users.
The latest Twitter feature is live
October is only halfway there, but Twitter has been busy testing new features that can give its users a better experience on the platform. One of the features Twitter is testing this month is a prompt that will let users know if they’re about to enter a heated or intense conversation.
Another feature tested, according to a tweet from Twitter support, is “edge-to-edge tweets.” End-to-end tweets are tweets that “span the width of the timeline, so your photos, GIFs, and videos have more room to shine.”
Although the feature has already started testing on iOS in September, it has begun testing on Android only October 1.
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