A little preface: I followed this individual on Twitter, and she followed me back. We share several mutual followers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom on Twitter. We don't know each other in real life. Yeah, I know, it's kinda ridiculous, no need to tell me that. 

Anyways, I decided to try and socialize/reach out to someone who follows me on Twitter for once, so I did so, and everything went swimmingly for about 5 minutes until I brought up how I don't like talking to new people because I'm afraid of coming off as weird, awkward, annoying, etc. 

I wasn't being creepy or anything like that. In hindsight, I realize this was a really stupid thing to say, and I should've just let the conversation flow like normally. Anyways, I was basically left on "Seen" about 10 minutes into our actual meeting, and I felt extremely terrible for saying what I said, so then I sent something along the lines of, "Anyways I'd rather talk about something positive. What's your favorite movie?" A (much closer) friend told me after the the fact that the opening line was a bad idea. I agree with that too. 

So, after waiting for about 10 more minutes for a response that hopefully would allow me to salvage this conversation and continue on like normal. But all I get is some text at the bottom of the DMs that says, 

"You can no longer send Direct Messages to this person." 

I check her profile and it says that her tweets aren't available to view for me. So, as luck would have it, I have been blocked after that short, awkward, weird interaction which I blame entirely on myself. 

So, am I the asshole in this situation? Thanks in advance. 