Blocking: * Alerts person you blocked them * Results in self-congratulatory tweet as if being annoying means you won Muting: * Disappears someone’s tweets from your timeline forever * Can’t understand why you don’t respond to thempic.twitter.com/hHLXahWAxQ
There is one other advantage of blocking. They can't as easily quote-tweet you, and that makes it harder to spread misrepresentations of what you said.
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when I block people the motivation is often "this is a mean-spirited, disingenuous person; I don't want to risk them seeing my tweets even by accident"
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Blocking is a stupidity-reduction service to your followers.
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This is the key reason IMO to block someone. If you only mute them, they can reply to your tweets and your followers will see their replies, even though you don’t. You can try block-unblock first though: it silently forces them to unfollow you.
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