Twitter’s new soft-block feature lets you prevent malicious followers from seeing your tweets without actually blocking them. But what’s the point?
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The option is called “remove this follower” and that’s exactly what it does. All it does is prevent another Twitter user from seeing your tweets in their timeline. A full block does the same thing, but blocking a user also prevents those users from seeing your tweets anywhere else. The idea of a soft block is to distance yourself from an abusive follower without making them angry. It’s sort of the Twitter equivalent of quietly sneaking out of a party to avoid that guy who’s been acting up.
“Twitter's soft-block tool is becoming one of our best weapons to manage our mental health while using social media,” Chel Gacrama of Castnoble, a wellness and mental resilience website, told Lifewire via email.
“Personally, I try to curate the content that goes through my feed because I don’t want social media to just be another source of stress and mental strain. The ability to soft-block people is useful because it allows you to ‘save yourself’ from their content without being disrespectful by blocking them outright.”
