Elon Musk’s X Is Changing The Way Blocked Accounts Work And It Is Not Good: What It Means

Elon Musk continues to make drastic changes to the micro-blogging platform X, formerly called Twitter. The social platform already lets you make video calls and even look for jobs. But now X is looking to change the policies that have made the platform a safe harbour for millions. The Musk-owned platform is going to have a new meaning for blocked accounts.

By that we mean, any account that you have blocked will be able to see your posts. Thankfully, these accounts still cannot interact with these users but even then X is clearly changing the dynamics of blocking an account and most people might not like it.

Blocked Accounts Have A New Meaning

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 monetising 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.