Blocked on Twitter: Who me? Couldn't be!

 I have officially received my first social media snub. Someone "blocked" me on Twitter. Yes, I know this is totally trivial and silly. But it still stings a little.

Here's how it went down. I had a few minutes to waste yesterday so I went in to my Twitter account to take a peek at what was going on. I came across a retweet (RT) of another mommy blogger's tweet. I don't actually know this mommy, but she is part of the larger Chicago-area mommy blogger community. This mom has interesting things to share and I thought that I had "followed" her already. But her tweets weren't appearing in my tweet stream. So I clicked on her Twitter handle and then clicked "follow."*

Imagine my surprise when I received the following message, "This user has blocked you from following them."

What? Blocked me? This is a move reserved for wanna-be Twitter porn stars who try to follow your account. Or Twitter users who constantly spam you. Why would this person have intentionally blocked me from following her?

What did I do that offended or annoyed this fellow Twitter mommy? I'll never know. And that is the part of this social media experience that kind of bugs me. Twitter users block or unfollow people all of the time. This has no doubt happened to me before (even though I didn't know about it) and it will certainly happen again.

I am wondering what other Twitter users out there think. Do you care when people block or unfollow you? Or do you simply tweet on?

* For those of you normal, sane people who don't use Twitter, please see here if you need help deciphering Twitterspeak.

This is an original Chicago Moms Blog post.

Caitlin Murray Giles writes about her adventures in Chicago with the little people in her life at Wee Windy City.