A Muted user can still follow you and send direct messages. They can see your profile incl. tweets, retweets, and likes. You simply hide their tweets from your timeline/feed only.
A Blocked user is prevented from following you and cannot send direct messages. They cannot see your profile incl. tweets, retweets, and likes. You are preventing any and all interaction.
Interestingly twitter’s “block” function did originally just mute people. I remember being blocked in around 2010 and it didn’t stop you following or reading their tweets. At first I was confused when people started requesting the true block functionality - what’s the point when tweets are publicly available to logged out users?
When you’ve never been harassed, like me or Musk or twitter’s original engineers, you don’t immediately understand that allowing (muted) interaction feeds the harassment and can still spread it around into a pile-on by non muted users.
Luckily most people get it now, but it looks like Musk wants to turn the clock back on it.
No.
Okay, well that sucks then. Hopefully Apple and Google actually put their feet down on this then.
Interestingly twitter’s “block” function did originally just mute people. I remember being blocked in around 2010 and it didn’t stop you following or reading their tweets. At first I was confused when people started requesting the true block functionality - what’s the point when tweets are publicly available to logged out users?
When you’ve never been harassed, like me or Musk or twitter’s original engineers, you don’t immediately understand that allowing (muted) interaction feeds the harassment and can still spread it around into a pile-on by non muted users.
Luckily most people get it now, but it looks like Musk wants to turn the clock back on it.
I thought Musk wanted to keep blocks for DMs
That is the intention, but what good does it do? People can still harass you through public tweets.
I guess then you could mute them
If they make Mute prevent the other user sending DMs it’d be compliant.