.@Jack, from the bottom of my heart: thank you. This will make the lives of a lot of people tangibly better. I will now unblock every company on the #BlockParty500 list. All: if you've been manually blocking as a part of this effort, pls. manually unblock. buzzfeednews.com/article/charli…
Some are saying @Jack only made this move b/c #BlockParty500 affected Twitter's ad revenues. That may or may not be true, but I think it's important to acknowledge it when companies do the right thing for any reason b/c it's not inevitable they will, even w/ coordinated pressure.
By the way, I hope that Twitter banning Alex Jones means that Wil Wheaton will come back to Twitter. I get that he's having a better life now and all but he needs to understand that this is about MY needs. 😉 Shout out to all #DeactiDay participants! You guys are hardcore. 💪
Thank you @lenpoz & @Nelba_MG for insights along the way. Thank you @slpng_giants for being relentless & brilliant & never faltering in your quest to help companies be better. Thank you @shannonrwatts for showing the way, as usual, and being the absolute north star that you are.
The @Adweek piece by @kelseymsutton on Twitter's decision to ban Alex Jones includes a nice mention of #BlockParty500 as well as my official statement about it: adweek.com/digital/twitte… (Apologies to anyone seeing this piece in my feed twice. Added it to the wrong thread earlier.)
PSA: it looks like @blocktogether is having some technical difficulties this morning, which means that the unblocks have not propagated out to everyone yet. I've notified the app creator and hopefully it will be back up and running soon.
Good news: Block Together is back up! Sounds like the system got a bit overwhelmed, which I guess will happen when 80k people do anything! You have 2 options: sit back, relax & let the unblocks propagate or log into @BlockTogether, go to "Subscriptions" & uncheck "shannoncoulter"
It's apparently going to take about ten days for all the unblocks to roll out. The recommendation from Block Together's creator is to just let that happen vs other ways. Looks like some subscriptions came in at the last minute yesterday, so final tally was 80,302!
Just want to say thank you SO much for all the well wishes these last 24 hours! Having a hard time keeping up, but please know it means the world to me. We did this together & in so doing, were a part of a years-long effort by others. Honored to stand shoulder to shoulder w/ all.
