X to remove the ability to block other users except in DMs

X, formerly known as Twitter, will now soon be removing the ability for users to block other accounts or other users as confirmed by Elon Musk on the platform last Friday.

Blocking another user would generally prohibit this account from contacting them, seeing their Tweets, or even ever following them in order to avoid any harassment or abusive content from ever reaching them.

However, it was made apparent that X would still carry the “Mute” function which would simply keep users from seeing specific accounts’ responses but wouldn’t eliminate any undesired replies from reaching their feed. Moreover, muting one account would not alert the other user of said muting.

This decision to remove the ability to block users can in turn go against Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store guidelines that lets users block any user-generated content and users, which can lead to X being removed on both platforms.