Elon Musk set off a firestorm Friday by announcing that Twitter, now called X, would “delete” the service’s longstanding user-blocking feature — raising the prospect that, as a result, the app could ...

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Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In Twitch’s latest episode of Patch Notes, its ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. In a recent post, the owner of X, (formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, announced his plans for the social media platform to ...

X, formerly Twitter, is now letting blocked users see posts made by the people who blocked them. “We’re starting to launch the block function update,” X’s engineering team wrote yesterday. X ...

Part of the X (née Twitter) roadmap? Off-handed reply? Simple attempt to get a rise out of people? Time will tell. The one thing we can say for sure is that X’s owner responded to a post on the ...

It appears that Elon Musk's X was undeterred from all of the criticism leveled at its announcement concerning changes to the block feature. "We’re starting to launch the block function update," an ...

Microsoft announced that security administrators will soon be able to block external users from sending messages, calls, or meeting invitations to members of their organization via Teams.

In a move that may concern brands, Reddit will now allow users to block an ad from their feed, automatically triggering the platform to hide all future ads from that specific advertiser account “for ...

LinkedIn users who’d rather not receive job inquiries or other messages, or allow access to their profiles from certain other members, can now block them. “Member blocking,” was recently released by ...

A new viral trend is emerging on TikTok — and not only are celebrities uninvited, they're blocked. Recent videos uploaded to TikTok, some gathering millions of views apiece, are urging social media ...