[TangoTrotFox]

I've also wondered about this, and the only conclusion I could come to is quite cynical. Think about the practical effects. It encourages people to create multiple accounts and also encourages warring of various sorts. These behaviors send Twitter's usage and user numbers up without bots while enabling complete plausible deniability about any complicity. It's a problem with ad-driven networks. Their goal is to increase user numbers which enables them to inflate their advertised reach and thus increase their overall revenue.

One might joke about Facebook bragging about its reach: "We have more than 2 billion users and only 25% are located in the USA!" Subtlety, math, and statistical references all in one one-liner joke - what could be better?

[Sean1708]

They tried to change the behaviour to the one that makes sense (to us) but there was backlash from users and so they reverted the change.[0]

[0]: https://www.imore.com/twitter-changes-how-block-works-heres-...

[alanfranzoni]

I didn't know that. Well, ok.