Twitter's Block Backtrack Scores Points

Finding itself at the center of a social media firestorm, Twitter on Friday acted quickly to placate users who were concerned about changes it made to its blocking functionality Thursday afternoon. Prior to the change, Twitter would send a notification to a person blocked from another's profile. The blocked individual couldn't follow, retweet, favorite or include in lists the person who had imposed the block. All that changed, at least for a little while, when Twitter effectively turned the block button into a mute function.