You hit the nail on the head, but maybe the other way around.
"Block" and "Mute" are the Twitter user's best friends. They keep the timeline free of spam, be it advertisers, or the growth hackers creating useless threads of Beginner 101 info and racking up thousands of likes.
After using several communications tools over the past couple of decades (BBSes, IRC, Usenet, AIM, plus the ones kids these days like), I'm convinced blocking and/or muting is required for any digital mass communication tool anyone other than sociopaths would use.
"Block" and "Mute" are the Twitter user's best friends. They keep the timeline free of spam, be it advertisers, or the growth hackers creating useless threads of Beginner 101 info and racking up thousands of likes.