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Citing Safety Concerns, Twitter Unveils Feature To Block Multiple Accounts at Once

As of Wednesday, Twitter lets users share block lists with others, allowing a user to block multiple accounts in an easy, fast and community-driven way, User Safety Engineer Xiaoyun Zhang wrote in a blog post Wednesday. The new feature comes…

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as Twitter recognizes some users experience “high volumes of unwanted interactions on Twitter” and require more sophisticated tools than individually muting and blocking other users, Zhang wrote. With the new feature, a user can export and share a block list with those facing similar issues or import another user’s block list to block multiple accounts at once. Twitter hopes these “advanced blocking tools will prove useful to the developer community to further improve users’ experience,” said Zhang. “This feature is yet another step towards making Twitter safer for everyone and will be available to some of our users starting [Wednesday] and all users in the coming weeks.”