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by LeonB 1595 days ago
Not something I’m going to dig into, sorry. People have every right to block others, without giving any explanation and I support that side of it completely.

It stood out from my pov because there’s very very few times I’ve noticed I’m blocked and I don’t generally mean to cause any offence. The most I would’ve been intending to cause was a little introspection.

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You could probably just ask in some way (email maybe) to become unblocked. It's really easy to feel like you're under attack constantly with that many followers so I'm not surprised any of them go heavy on the blocking.
I wasn’t following him and don’t mind about that. I think people have every right to block people without that person reaching out on other ways — I’ve seen people demanding explanations etc and in those cases as in this case, you know why.
> there’s very very few times I’ve noticed I’m blocked

Is that a normal thing, to be blocked more than once on Twitter?

It’s not normal for me, at any rate.

There are sometimes quite wide blocklists - I know I was at some point on a blocklist composed of anyone who had ever followed a particular person.

Then why did you bring this up?
As a cautionary tale to others, in case they don’t want to be blocked by him, it might make them pause and consider before putting into writing any extremely mild criticism, on Twitter.