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In today’s “how are people this dumb” thread I’d like to address the vague legal threats that have been popping up in my mentions regarding “being on a list” and “GDPR”. #repealshield @repeal_shield ➡️
Yes love, you are on a list. It’s called a block list. It’s one of twitters core functionalities. Wow, look here I can even see and manage my own block list from within the app! 🤓 Now, you’re hardly complaining about someone using a choice to block ya are ya? ➡️ 
“I don’t care who you block you can’t share your block list like that” Au contraire my ignorant friend, that is also a functionality of Twitter- the ability to export and import block lists. help.twitter.com/en/using-twitt… ➡️
So, here is the long promised @repeal_shield block list overview. I know I've been promising it a while, but the list grew so rapidly and I'm never to the data analysis stuff so it took much longer than expected. #RepealShield
Firstly, this analysis is not based on the full block list as it currently stands. There are currently over 16,000 on the list - this analysis is based on the last data dump from a few days ago so that's 13,474 users.
Now, we're seen some absolutely odious users. Some not just actively pushing abuse and misinformation, but also breaking the Twitter rules (e.g. fake political party accounts.) So, unsurprisingly, some accounts have since been suspended, about 2.42% of all blocked accounts.
