Matt Galligan
Casey NewtonThe obvious next step for Twitter is to announce that if you subscribe to Blue no one will be able to block you
Mitch Goldstein@caseynewton given Elon's penchant for telling people to wipe their blocklists, I wouldn't be surprised
Janak J Parekh@caseynewton I think that would truly doom Twitter for a lot of folks, but I also think it’s very possible.
alarmed feet operative: kimothy siddon@caseynewton god the worst part is that probably is an option they're currently weighing up
Nic@caseynewton The amount of harassment that would enable would be unprecedented.
Marcus Mendes@caseynewton I’ve been waiting for “only Blue subscribers can have 🔒 accounts”.
Martin Du4@caseynewton Frankly that should be Twitter Iron Shield.
Rairii@caseynewton i said this a while ago, someone replied saying the next step could be to prevent people from blocking at all unless they subscribe to blue
Locksmith@caseynewton Not the Blue, but the upcoming Platinum Blue, which will cost $29.99/month and you give you either immunity to blocking, or a remove-block feature.
Elvith Ma'for@caseynewton Also, muting phrases could be another subscription
Mullaney@caseynewton And the biggest reason why this might happen, is because Elon probably HATES that so many people block him.
DiversionsManifold@caseynewton Until they create their Blue+ (Ultraviolet?) tier, to enable the blocking of mere Blues...
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Brian Sokol@caseynewton I think Musk may recognize some of the value of blocking, so I think it's more likely that they would say only people who subscribe to Blue will be able to block others. If you don't have Blue, you gotta see everyone. But that's me assuming they would make a logical decision.
Alex KOh you know Elon had engineers working on that this weekend.
My other thought was that Elon might opt to limit the number of people you can block per day on normal accounts. Say like 10/day but unlimited for Twitter Blue.
The IT NerdDo not give Elon any ideas.
Earthy Tonez@caseynewton Or make blocking a Twitter Blue only feature.
Duncan Blues@mikkergp @caseynewton my thoughts exactly.
Drew Breunig@caseynewton Freedom of speech, beat 'em with reach.
Oran Magal@caseynewton You’re joking, but honestly I can see it happening.
@caseynewton @wordshaper do not invent the torment nexus
Paul Tenny@caseynewton I was thinking more along the lines of the blocking feature being taken away from free and moved to Blue. Seems to fit perfectly with Musk's idiocy.
Chris Rory@caseynewton sealing its position as incel of the internet
I TRIED TO TELL YOU@caseynewton Paraphrasing Douglas Adams (RIP) here: "There is a theory that this has already happened."
DeborahStander@caseynewton OK, here's a nightmare scenario "next step." Musk appoints Tucker Carlson as Twitter's new CEO!
newsorpigalDon't give Elon ideas 🤣
P Marsden@caseynewton HUSH YOUR MOUTH
pdm@caseynewton Then he can charge $16/month for SuperBlock™️ to block Twitter Blue subscribers!
Pier'ce@caseynewton this would be fun and crazy at the same time 🤣.
LOL. Sounds like something Elmo would come up with.
Juan Villela@caseynewton This is the logical next step. I think they should also allow you to promote other people's tweets! Just like Blaze on Tumblr. Let the chaos run wild!!!
Robert McNees@caseynewton They are going to make blocking a feature that is only available to Twitter Blue subscribers.
Marc Mims@caseynewton Using the API access of my last remaining Twitter app, I've blocked 40-million of Elon's 130-million followers. I don't know how far I'll get before the lights go out, but I'm heading there at about 30 blocks per second.
Synchroma@caseynewton You really are like the Nostradamus of #tech — accurate yet slightly daunting predictions!
Trapamazing@caseynewton I thought Elon was takin the blue checks lol
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusThe blue checkmark is rightly rejected by any truly verified source, when anyone else can pretend to be just as much you, as you yourself, by just purchasing their own check and aliasing your account within a letter or two.
The blue check has made itself an absolute joke. Twitter is in fact now a cuckoo bird, plopping its progeny upon the media as a whole.
Todd@caseynewton please, the product genius has had enough ideas
Paskajärven kaunis Charlotta@caseynewton this sounds like a silly thing you’d say as a joke and then suddenly see it become reality
@caseynewton if you didn't talk about twitter for a week or so, what can we learn about that is interesting?
Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲@caseynewton shhhhhhhhhhhh don't give the manchild any ideas
Professor Charles Haas@caseynewton No - that is only for the Ultramarine subscription. Maybe $1000 a month?
Bruce Halperin 
@caseynewton that would be the last straw. I’d delete my account.
CIWS-30@caseynewton One of my last popular tweets said the same thing, along with people being forced to auto-follow you if Musk decided he wanted to promote somebody.
Henry@caseynewton it’s sad to think that, while Twitter was far from perfect, there were good intentions and hard work to improve going on until Elon moved in with his sink and pulled the plug on all the good stuff and sacked most of the software engineers. Now twitter is getting worse and will likely fall apart sooner than later. Elon goes from one bad idea to the next, he’s clueless. Having “see half the ads” as a selling point for blue is really all you need to know
MattThe obvious next step for Twitter users is to leave
Katy Ramm@caseynewton I am sure there was already a thought (or similar :) about it)