Sunday, February 28, 2010

What happens when you block someone on Twitter

This is what happens when you block someone on Twitter.

1. You and your Pic will not appear on the blocked person's homepage
2. Your Tweets will not appear on their Timeline or badges
3. The person does not get notified that they have been blocked
4. They will not be able to follow you anymore or try to re-follow you or re-add you as a friend
5. They can still see your public profile but will be unable to receive your tweets on their public timeline or Phone
6. Immediately removed from their friends list
7. If they try to re-add you as a friend they will see this message


What they are still able to do.


1. Read your public timeline

2. Send you @replies

3. Re-Tweet your messages



Related Post: How to block someone on Twitter

So how to know if you've been blocked on Twitter?

The surefire way is to look at their profile when you are logged into Twitter and when you logout. When you are not logged into Twitter and you see there are way more Tweets. You know you have been blocked. If you try to follow them again - you will get a message from Twitter that you have been blocked.

52 comments:

  1. Thats stupid,

    the point of blocking someone on twitter is because they keep making @replies to them.

    so they should be banned from doing that.

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  2. I just want this person unable to see any of my tweets. Why the hell can't I do that?

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  3. the only way to do that is locking your page, you have to make your twitter private

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  4. I agree it needs to be more of a full block. Even if you have a public profile, if they are logged in they should not be able to view your twitter page, send replies, or re-tweet period.

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  5. I would like to block NickStarr fully. It's a shame you can't really block someone from reading, retweeting, replying etc

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  6. what about people who block for no reason at all? I don't get that.

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  7. you really need to change it so people cant see your tweets!!!! or retweet you!

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  8. Can it be done so you just don't see their tweets unless its an @ message?

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  9. Your public timeline is still visible to all.

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  10. I did it because I don't want to see THEIR tweets anymore so by me blocking them , do I still see them ?

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  11. No, you will not see their tweets. You could also unfollow them.

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  12. I WANT them to so stop mentioning me! please to something about it

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  13. and i want them to not know i exist! please

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  14. Twitter, get your god damn shit together. Blocking someone means they CANT @reply you! DO IT NOW

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  15. The Twitter block is totally &completely useless.

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  16. Can someone follow a person that they've blocked?

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  17. Not possible as you will first need to unblock that person before being able to follow again.

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  18. This is the dumbest thing I have ever read. The whole purpose of the 'block' button is to prevent the other person/people from seeing your tweets and/or replying to you. So, basically, the only thing the block button does is prevent someone from following you again? Are you serious? That is STUPID.

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  19. twitter should do something about this because whats the point of blocking someone if they are still able to see your tweets? -.- oh and btw follow me :D palacios670

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  20. if some1 tweets u, then a month later blocks u - do their tweets to u remain? or do they disappear?

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  21. Twitter really needs to change that..I dnt want to make my profile private..i just dnt want that 1 person stalking my life and going to my pg all the time..ugh

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  22. I wish it wouldn't show that message if they try to re-follow you. I don't want them to know I blocked them.

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  23. I think someone has blocked me but I don't get a block message, I get a message that says "your account may not be able to perform this action". What does that mean?

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  24. does it block by IP or just by account?

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  25. It blocks by account @silkiam

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  26. yeah i have someone that i BLOCKED but they can still go onto my page and creep on all my stuff..why can't the block button make it so you dont exist to them on the twitter world?? dumb.

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  27. THE POINT OF BLOCKING IS BLOCKING FROM SEEING ANYTHING RELATED TO THE USER ! THIS DOESN'T HELP !

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  28. Set yur timeline to private and stop bitching, if they weren't logged in as the username yu blocked they can still browse yur page as a guest.. Make it private yu lil assholes

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  29. Even if my page was set on private I still don't want them to see my pic!! Or find me on twitter

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  30. can they still read my tweets? i have a stalker and im really scared he'll come find me :(

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  31. Some fool decided to tweet me malicious and annoying messages, which resulted in a back and forth game of `tennis-war' - he didn't seem to be going anywhere...then I blocked him as he wasn't going anywhere. 

    Clearly he wanted to annoy me and try to damage my business name in the process but I blocked him.  The block feature is a blessing.

    He only had 50 followers vs my 500 followers , but the `war' was a waste of time.

    If he tweets my public timeline , that's just messed up and sick...

    I believe the BLOCK feature should ELIMINATE all of that annoying and stalkerish behaviour.

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  32. Damn. Do something twitter! If I block someone, that means, I don't want to see that profile ever again -_-

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  33. can they just not see my tweets? my dad is following me...

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  34. so my best friend clicked the phone button on my twitter and she gets all my tweets sent to her phone..i didnt like that, so i blocked her..but she found out that i blocked her and now she is mad..is there a way i can stop her from getting my tweets sent to her phone with out blocking her???

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  35. ma 2 idiot mates blocked me for no reason, what a pair of twonks!!

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  36. how about you make it so they can't see your tweets, they can't follow you, they can't talk to you. like seriously annoying bitches that i know do not need to see my twitter. twitter is like my heart, i spill everything about myself over it.. but thanks for fucking everything up. FACEBOOK I'M COMING BACK.

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  37. Aiya, this is not very helpful when you're blocking someone. I'm surely positive none of us wants the people we're blocking to read, retweet and even reply back to us. -.-"

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  38. Theyre gonna know theyre blocked if they see that message so whats the point?

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  39. Twitter please do something, some of us could be in danger

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  40. Thts stupid and pointless! Might as well not block em!

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  41. I need to block my pastor so i can make status's about getting shitty.

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  42. so can they see your tweets ??

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  43. what do u mean by shitty ?

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  44. it would be nice if blocked persons could not edit your tweets after they've become blocked. make them type it out themselves.

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  45. can they see my avatar ?

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  46. What you can do: block the person & protect your tweets.

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  47. why cant it be like facebook where you can't see each other in order to make your life easier? :P

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  48. This is something they should do.

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  49. my boss is following me, #FML

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