Elon Musk is making major changes to the microblogging site X, which was previously known as Twitter. The social platform already allows you to conduct video calls and hunt for employment. But now X wants to modify the policies that have made the site a safe haven for millions. The Musk-owned network will have a new definition for banned accounts.
This means that any account you have blocked will be able to view your postings. Fortunately, these accounts cannot communicate with these individuals, but X is definitely changing the mechanics of account banning, which most people may not appreciate.
The post from Musk this week suggests he wants to get rid of the whole blocking concept, and offer a more refined version of muting accounts. For all these years, blocking an account on Twitter, now X, meant you see the icon, “You’re blocked” when you want to see their profile.
You are also stopped from seeing their posts, replies and even media content posted by the person. But the new version of blocking accounts could go lenient, and allowing the account to see the posts of the person who has blocked them changes the equation and purpose of the feature in the first place. Musk has talked about his dislike for the block feature and he even pointed out that the option makes no sense at all.
The alterations coming to X this week could be part of Musk’s mission to remove the feature altogether and he might do it gradually rather than in one go which could invite user criticism.
The platform already has undergone massive changes since Musk took over a few years back. His focus on monetizing X has become evident with the impetus on making people pay for the features like edit post button, verified badge and more. He even got the Grok AI chatbot working for the premium subscribers and show them less ads. He wants to make X into an everything app, and these additions are slowly getting him there.
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Source; NEWS18
