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Strict curation is the key to Twitter usage. Otherwise it's just an avalanche of crap.

Even then, Twitter is finding more ways to shove "More Tweets" at you.

I remember back in the day you'd expand a tweet and just see it and the responses, but now you immediately get "more tweets" below it that have nothing to do with what you're reading.

ha! I was going to say the same thing, in fact I think that blocking people just ends up giving them the satisfaction that they had this power over you but also could serve as a powerful signal to twitter users with lot of followers.

Twitter does to a certain degree do a good job of hiding replies under 'show more replies' I get the feeling that people with 5 digit and up followers do not click it, if they do, most do not go out of their way to block people.

> I think that blocking people just ends up giving them the satisfaction that they had this power over you

I think you're overthinking it. Unless you're a known person who interacted with them meaningfully before, they won't even know you blocked them. If you're just blocking to clean your timeline, you're the only one who will see the effects.

This is the correct approach.