1118363 - Messages from blocked or muted users still show up in Twitter timeline

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Chat Core :: Twitter, defect)

Description

[Emanuel Hoogeveen [:ehoogeveen]]

I had the misfortune recently of becoming involved in a very unpleasant exchange on twitter, which is still going on. Although I'm no longer involved in the conversation, each message is still addressed to me (among others).

I have tried muting and blocking the unpleasant person involved in the conversation, and I no longer see their messages when I go to twitter.com. However, the messages still show up in my timeline in Instantbird, and each one pings me.

This is getting very upsetting - I had hoped that by updating to the latest Nightly build, this would be fixed, but I still get the messages all the same. I have no idea how the twitter API works, but I hope this is fixable on your end - for now I have resolved not to use twitter through Instantbird until this dies down.

Comment 1

[aleth [:aleth]]

I'm amazed clients apparently have to take care of this. It seems it would involve 
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/blocks/list
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/blocks/ids

Related: providing a way to block users is bug 954715.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

From https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/userstreams:

> Consider obtaining a list of blocked users from the REST API regularly using GET blocks / ids.
> Blocked accounts are filtered on the server-side in the home timeline. There is no need to
> fetch or apply the block list if only displaying the home timeline or the user timeline.
> Track results and @mentions, are not filtered for blocked accounts. Consider optionally
> grabbing the block list to filter blocked accounts from track results. The block list should
> be cached locally - the change velocity is usually quite low. If possible, save the cache to
> disk to avoid polling for the block list upon startup. An update interval of 6 to 24 hours
> would be reasonable.

This seems to imply we don't have to worry about this...except for "track results" and @mentions, which this seems to be specifically about.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Bug 1445778 removes support for Twitter due to changes in their streaming API.