I really do blame Twitter for making it so much harder to mass block accounts
It took me almost a full day to block the medium sized (12K+) account who's followers were trying to dogpile my mentions \1
Twitter broke 'Block Chain' several months ago by force-logging-out your session if you quickly blocked slightly more than 500 accounts. I found an alternative called 'Chain Block' (only available for Chrome) that tries to slide under the 500 block limit per run \2
But if you need to block MORE than 500 accounts total, you have to run it multiple times - which triggers Twitter's force-logout. I had to run it around 50 times to block the pile on
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It took around 50 runs (instead of 25) because it takes TWO runs per 500 accounts - the first run works, the second run triggers the logout but doesn't do much blocking. Then you have to log in AGAIN and repeat.
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What a pain
But the only real alternative when a medium sized or larger account initiates a pile-on is to go into lockdown for a few days until they get bored and go away
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