Elon Musk says the block button will be the next feature on X, formerly known as Twitter, to be removed.

“Block is going to be deleted as a ‘feature’, except for DMs,” the X owner posted Friday, in response to a tweet about blocking compared to muting. “Makes no sense.” …

If the block option were to be removed, Musk suggested that users can mute other accounts instead. This option means the user who does the muting cannot see the other account’s posts on their timeline, but does not prohibit them from following you or replying to tweets.

[I prefer the Mute function in most cases, but Block has its uses, especially to defeat bots and particularly malicious users. At the moment I have a half-dozen accounts fully blocked, and probably several dozen muted. I’d prefer to have both functions, as they may overlap some but have different uses. — Ed]