Concerning!
This article about twitter ends with:
X aka Twitter has not been contacted for comment because it is known to only send a poop emoji in reply to media queries.
The worse thing is people are still paying attention to what he does. Why? I have no fucking idea.
Only difference being that Archer, despite his childishness, would donit in a clever way, as he actually has a brain.
He would also likely stop before it went too far as he actually has a conscience and some humility.
Also if Archer did it, it would be funny.
I think he’s gonna implement a paywall for blocking.
“Blocking for me, not for thee! So decrees the king of X!” - Elon Musk
I’m picturing him wearing a towel as a cape with a burger king paper crown and wielding a paper towel roll as a scepter.
I want to see catturd2 on mastodon specifically so I can nuke whatever instance’ll have him from orbit
He’s definitely going to make Blocking a feature available on a higher priced subscription tier. Take it away, say people “convinced” him that some still want it, make up some BS about how maintaining the feature has a cost to Twitter and make people pay for it.
It’d probably cost a lot as he’d code it- each time a tweet is pulled up there’d be a full search to see which users have the tweet author blocked. If the returned list has the viewer’s ID included then set the style for the tweet to not be visible.
Check is done by querying the list of users and running a for loop to see if any user names match the user name of blocked users. This is all handled on the client side and optimised by exposing the SQL server. Security is maintained by banning anyone who uses the word “drop” in any query (after the query goes through).
