Twitter is one of the most popular social networks along with others like instagram either Facebook, a platform that allows us to stay in touch with other users through more or less short messages, videos and images, in addition to staying informed and up to date on topics of interest to us. But it can also become a nuisance if certain users start to be annoying or offensive continuously; Luckily, Twitter has the possibility of block useryes through one of its options, thus preventing blocked users can read our publications and access our profile. Therefore, below we show you how to block someone on Twitter, both on the social network's website and in the application for iOS and Android mobiles.
How to block someone on Twitter
First we will learn how to block users on the Twitter website and later we will do it through the official application of the social network available on devices iOS and Android. In both cases we will have to follow similar steps through the platform settings.
How to block users on the Twitter website
The first step to block someone through the Twitter website is access the profile of the person we want to block through our account; To do this, we can do it in several ways, from searching for the person to blocking through the search bar from Twitter with the name of your account to access our followers Through our Profile, in the section Followers and searching for your profile among all the users who follow our account, among other possibilities.
However we have reached the profile of the person we want to block, now we must Click on the three dots icon located to the right of the username and their photo, along with other direct message, notification and Following icons.
By pressing this icon, a pop-up menu will open with several options about the profile we want to block; In this menu we must click on Block followed by the username to block.
After clicking on the option Block A pop-up window will open asking us if we want to block said user along with a short explanation about the consequences of blocking users. Again, click on the option Block to finish the process.
How to block users in the Twitter app
In the case of the official Twitter app for mobile devices, both iOS as Android, the first step is access the profile of the user we want to block. Again, there are several options to find said user, from searching for the person to blocking through the search bar from Twitter with the name of your account to access our followers through our Profile, in the Followers section and searching for your profile among all the users who follow our account, among other possibilities.
Once we are in the profile of the user to block we must Click the three vertical dots icon located in the upper right corner of the mobile screen.
Pressing this icon will open a pop-up menu with several options, including: Block; click on Block to continue with the process of blocking said profile.
Now a window will appear asking us if we want to block said user along with a brief explanation about the consequences of blocking users on Twitter. Click again on the option Block to finish the blocking process in the Twitter app.
