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Friday starting with three big headlines.

Elon Musk's Social Network X is exploring a new feature that would allow users to block others

from direct messaging them but in a way that's separate from the account

blocking feature. You see currently when you block an account that account can't engage with you

through public posts or direct messages

DMs. With a new feature the company would have two separate blocking functions

one for personal messaging and one for public posting.

Yesterday a few absluths published screenshots of how DM blocks would look.

Musk quoted one of these posts and said,

DMs are being decoupled from public postings,

so that if you all want to use this platform for messaging,

but not post publicly, you can do so.

Now this phrasing is strange, because even with the current iteration of direct messages,

users can choose not to post and still engage with other users through DM.

Of course, another possibility here might be a separate app, but it's not really clear that's what Musk is saying.

As has been the case with a lot of features on X lately, the DM blocking features is in development,

but there are no details about a public rollout.

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