A day after asserting the elimination of the block characteristic on the social media platform X, its proprietor Elon Musk took a jibe at these individuals who complain that blocking goes away.
Taking to Twitter (X), Musk wrote “Pretty fun blocking people who complain that blocking is going away. How does the medicine taste?”
Here’s the submit:
Earlier, whereas responding to a query from the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley account asking customers about their desire between mute and the block characteristic, Musk had famous that blocking can be deleted as a characteristic anticipated for direct messages.
However, he added that customers will nonetheless possess the flexibility to mute others.
In a submit on Friday, Musk wrote, “Block goes to be deleted as a “characteristic”, except for DMs”. “It is unnecessary” the billionaire added.
Since he acquired the corporate previously referred to as Twitter in a $44 billion deal final 12 months, Musk’s eradicating the blocking characteristic is only one of many modifications that had been launched.
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After Musk took over Twitter, he laid off a lot of the corporate’s workforce, scrapped the outdated verified programme in favour of the $8/month Twitter Blue subscription, modified its identify from Twitter to X, and launched stay streaming.
Meanwhile, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a submit on X (previously referred to as Twitter) wrote that he has deleted his Instagram account after utilizing it for 12 years.
He wrote, “deleted my instagram account after 12 years. was one of the first 10 accounts I believe, and one of the first angel investors. who will they give the @jack handle to?” To this Musk had reacted with a fireplace emoji.
Earlier in July, Dorsey shared a screenshot on Twitter displaying Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had despatched a good friend request to him on Threads.
With company inputs.
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Updated: 20 Aug 2023, 07:51 PM IST
