Former Hollyoaks star Annie Wallace has warned she will quit social media platform X following their next update.
The Sally St. Claire actress, 59, left the Channel 4 soap last month as a result of cost-cutting measures imposed on production company Lime Pictures.
A number of characters were let-go – before and after a UK-soap first time jump – that saw the action permanently sky rocket one year into the future.
Sadly, Sally did not have an on-screen exit storyline and it was later explained that she’d moved to Spain to live with the wider McQueen family.
Now, Annie has taken to social media to address huge changes that will soon be implemented on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The platform was bought by tech billionaire Elon Musk at the end of October 2022, and has controversially, and quite radically, changed the interface over time.
Aside from removing the familiar and popular Twitter name, he’s also introduced a paid-model for account verification. This essentially means that anyone can subscribe to receive a ‘blue tick’, something which was previously only given to notable figures to distinguish them from fake accounts.
Yesterday, XEngineering confirmed that further changes were on the way.
‘Soon we’ll be launching a change to how the block function works’ they wrote.
‘If your posts are set to public, accounts you have blocked will be able to view them, but they will not be able to engage (like, reply, repost, etc.).’
They suggested using extra privacy tools, such as the lock function, to prevent those you had previously blocked from accessing your content.
Annie expressed her distaste at the change, concerned that the thousands of users that have sent her transphobic abuse in the past will resurface.
‘This will be the day I leave Twitter’ she wrote.
‘I have 16,000 blocked accounts, most of them for extremist transphobia; sometimes directed me, sometimes blocked proactively to prevent any kind of interaction. Any change which allows them to see my content is one I will not permit.
‘When I block someone, I want no further interaction with them in either direction, for my own safety.’
She continued: ‘I suspect this will be the final nail in the platforms coffin.’
