Popular microblogging platform Twitter has been working on major updates that define how people use the social media app in the last year, testing out some features and keeping those that stick. Now, Twitter will make it easier to be the curator of your own followers list by letting you remove a follower without blocking them.
RIP good old block unblock 🙁
Block unblock works magic
— OoF (@NigelJr_) August 8, 2021
The feature is getting tested out on Twitter for the web, as with the other features, Twitter will most likely monitor the response and keep it if it’s well adopted.
We're making it easier to be the curator of your own followers list. Now testing on web: remove a follower without blocking them.
To remove a follower, go to your profile and click “Followers”, then click the three dot icon and select “Remove this follower”. pic.twitter.com/2Ig7Mp8Tnx
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 7, 2021
Twitter is also testing edge-to-edge media in tweets on iOS, creating a more full-screen, almost Instagram-like experience for the photos and videos in your timeline.
Video summary: upbeat music plays as the Twitter Home timeline scrolls up to show bold colorful images and GIFs. They begin to animate and expand, showing a new test that will display Tweets and media edge to edge, across the width of the timeline to give them more room to shine.
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) September 7, 2021
The feature which has received a very negative response helps Twitter address concerns over image cropping that it’s been dealing with over the last few years. Image cropping algorithms have been informally shown to have a bias toward white faces.
