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The short-lived change meant that blocked users could still view and interact with tweets from the person who blocked them and could no longer see that they had been blocked. 

Twitter said this was designed to protect victims of harassment who feared that blocking a user would lead to retaliation. 

But after a wave of online protest, Twitter re-instated its previous policy, whereby blocked users are notified, and are prevented from following and interacting with their blocker. 

Michael Sippey, vice president of product at Twitter, said: “We have decided to revert the change after receiving feedback from many users — we never want to introduce features at the cost of users feeling less safe.” 

Several online petitions had been launched and users rallied behind the hashtag to complain about the change. 

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