<story><title>Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it</title><url>https://megablock.xyz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>The little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.</text></item><item><author>nevi-me</author><text>I sometimes manually do this when I&amp;#x27;m feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I&amp;#x27;d disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.&lt;p&gt;Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t ban the API use).&lt;p&gt;Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app&amp;#x27;s permission when done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>2muchcoffeeman</author><text>Some people will block accounts that follow accounts they don&amp;#x27;t like. I specifically follow people I don&amp;#x27;t agree with so I am exposed to the dumb things they are saying. I&amp;#x27;m not sure how many people have blocked me even though I barely tweet much.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure social media is simply a system to reinforce echo chambers and tribalism.</text></comment>
<story><title>Block a tweet, its author, and every single person who liked it</title><url>https://megablock.xyz/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>adastra22</author><text>The little heart button isn’t endorsement though. Lots of people use it as a bookmarking tool, or as a stochastic retweet button.</text></item><item><author>nevi-me</author><text>I sometimes manually do this when I&amp;#x27;m feeling petty, or when a tweet is so offensive that in real life, I&amp;#x27;d disassociate with people who endorse it. Good to have a tool. I just tried it on a spam tweet, and only the author got blocked.&lt;p&gt;Maybe other users get put in a queue or the service is close to Twitter limits.
Probably still good to create my own block function (and hope Twitter doesn&amp;#x27;t ban the API use).&lt;p&gt;Reminder: Probably best to revoke the app&amp;#x27;s permission when done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmitshur</author><text>It is also sometimes (probably quite rarely) an unintended misclick.</text></comment>