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by 5F36B5F62640 3824 days ago
Her blocking tool is idiotic. It blocks people whose only offense it to follow more than one account on Twitter from a small list of accounts that she considers to be GG leaders. It ends up blocking many anti-GG people who are following those accounts because they want to know what their opponents are up to.
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> It ends up blocking many anti-GG people who are following those accounts because they want to know what their opponents are up to.

Sad to hear that some Twitter users are not making the best use of its features. It's very easy to create a list of Nero and his flying monkeys, and you can add people to a list without following them.

You can keep the list private so nobody knows you're even doing it.

It's also much more efficient. In the normal use of Twitter (dipping into a stream), you are highly unlikely to see most of any account's tweets. With a list, you can see all the tweets you want whenever you want.

(Sorry this is off-topic, but it might help someone who hasn't used the Lists feature, which Twitter hides away.)

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2no4me/im_a...

There's no good mechanism for this case, either.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14iu4XVTKw2tSAlv3x8ktxQfz...

There is an appeals process, it turns out.