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This isn't the first time I've had this happen, and it is completely bizarre. I can't imagine the mindset that seeks out someone else's tweets, replies to one of those tweets, then immediately blocks this person who'd been minding their business who you just replied to.https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1363234156398977029 …
Actually, thinking as a moderator, this is probably worth tweaking one's code to disallow, since it could easily be used to link spam or abuse to another user's posts without them being able to report you.
A bit of code that checks if the action you took before blocking was replying to the same user and forces you delete all replies if you want to block them would be relatively easy and worthwhile to prevent abuse, imo.
I'll @jack and@twittersupport in case this could be of use.
You could also code it to automatically delete recent replies to a user you're now blocking (removing all replies within a certain recent time period like 10 mins), and have something that informs the user of this.
I do it to transphobes all the time. Reply for the benefit of others reading along, wait a bit so there's a good chance they've seen it, block. I'm not interested in them as people, I'm interested in there being an obvious opposition to their hate.
I'm sure it infuriates them, but again - the reply isn't for them, it's for other people who might see what they're saying. If it was against the rules or impossible I'd just reply then mute but I'd rather block them.
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