A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III
3 years, 4 months ago

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part III

Wired  

Getting Through, 2016–Present By the end of the Obama era, Black Twitter seemed like a fully realized world, with its own codes and customs. Illustration: Aaron Marin Sarah J. Jackson, coauthor of #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice: When we first got on Twitter, we weren’t worried about people pretending to be Black. Brandon Jenkins, TV and podcast host: Black Twitter made a real-time encyclopedia, like an IV plugged into our system. André Brock, author of Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures: When Trump took over, white people really began to claw back all the politeness and care for Black folk that they, at one point, seemed to have.

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Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be
1 week, 4 days ago

Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be

Wired  

If you dwell in certain internet neighborhoods long enough, the rules of governing, however absurd or toxic, become second nature. Even fans of the platform would refer to it as “the hellsite.” But people stayed, largely because there didn’t seem to be a viable alternative. “Trying to find my niche subset of humor on here,” @lvteef posted on December 3, …

How Prentice Penny docuseries charts the good, the bad and the ugly of Black Twitter
6 months, 1 week ago

How Prentice Penny docuseries charts the good, the bad and the ugly of Black Twitter

LA Times  

You’ve probably heard or read these phrases somewhere: “Oscars So White,” “Me Too,” “Say Her Name,” “Black Girl Magic,” “Black Lives Matter.” They’ve all become part of the national lexicon. Now that Twitter is called X and has lost its luster, former “Insecure” showrunner Prentice Penny and Wired writer Jason Parham have teamed up as executive producers to document those …

"We've been doing that to survive": "Black Twitter" filmmaker on Black culture repurposing spaces
7 months, 1 week ago

"We've been doing that to survive": "Black Twitter" filmmaker on Black culture repurposing spaces

Salon  

Why did you first join Twitter? “You get to see people's kind of the way they think.” Penny continued, “And I think that becomes much more of an interesting person to want to meet than just seeing a picture and not knowing what's happening here.” “Black Twitter" is based on Jason Parham’s Wired article “A People’s History of Black Twitter." …

The free jazz ensemble known as Black Twitter, and how it became the subject of a new docuseries
7 months, 2 weeks ago

The free jazz ensemble known as Black Twitter, and how it became the subject of a new docuseries

LA Times  

Collective improvisation is a Black technology. A new docuseries on Hulu, “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” traces the path that the free jazz ensemble that is Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again, a harbor of soft but insistent vigilantism. 143 — a number that first earned significance as the late ’90s pager code …

‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture
7 months, 2 weeks ago

‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’ tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subculture

LA Times  

When Hulu announced that it would be releasing a docuseries about Black Twitter, the streamer got an immediate earful from … Black Twitter. As one person posted on the platform, “The Black Twitter response to the Black Twitter doc is so very #BlackTwitter.” The makers of “Black Twitter: A People’s History,” the three-part series that premiered at the South by …

With Twitter in chaos, Mark Zuckerberg looks to pounce
1 year, 5 months ago

With Twitter in chaos, Mark Zuckerberg looks to pounce

CNN  

Washington CNN — Mark Zuckerberg has tried for years to take on Twitter. Meta launched Threads, which the company describes as a “text-based conversation app” and whose promotional screenshots resemble Twitter’s layout, on Thursday. Poised to benefit are rivals including Meta’s Threads; the decentralized social network Mastodon, which according to its creator saw a spike in signups over the weekend; …

We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?
1 year, 9 months ago

We Were All Supposed To Leave The Twitter Dumpster Fire. Why Are We Still Here?

Huff Post  

I’m not sure when Twitter ― founded in 2006 as a fledgling microblogging network in competition with the MySpace juggernaut and the then-growing Facebook ― had its watershed moment and moved toward becoming the behemoth it is today. Twitter, along with a quarantine that bored people senseless, was the catalyst behind the unprecedented global response to George Floyd’s murder; arguably, …

After Elon Musk's takeover, Black Twitter's future lies in the balance : It's Been a Minute : NPR
2 years ago

After Elon Musk's takeover, Black Twitter's future lies in the balance : It's Been a Minute : NPR

NPR  

What we lose if Black Twitter disappears Enlarge this image Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images; David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images Carina Johansen/NTB/AFP via Getty Images; David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images; STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images #BlackLivesMatter. These huge cultural moments come from one of the most chaotic, beloved, and influential communities online: Black Twitter. What's …

How Twitter became one of the world's preferred platforms for sharing ideas
2 years, 1 month ago

How Twitter became one of the world's preferred platforms for sharing ideas

NPR  

How Twitter became one of the world's preferred platforms for sharing ideas Enlarge this image toggle caption Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images Stanislav Kogiku/SOPA Images/Lightrocket via Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk has owned Twitter for less than a month. "There really is no other place where you can be any common individual with no political power, no monetary power, …

Sensing an imminent breakdown, communities mourn a bygone Twitter
2 years, 1 month ago

Sensing an imminent breakdown, communities mourn a bygone Twitter

NPR  

Sensing an imminent breakdown, communities mourn a bygone Twitter Enlarge this image toggle caption Gregory Bull/AP Gregory Bull/AP Twitter's recent trending hashtags, like #RIPTwitter and #TwitterDown, have signaled a virtual wake for the website as if it were already dead. Whether Twitter collapses, Musk's major changes, including his overhaul of the verification system, have already sent people fleeing the site …

What happens to 'Black Twitter' under Musk?
2 years, 1 month ago

What happens to 'Black Twitter' under Musk?

NPR  

What happens to 'Black Twitter' under Musk? MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: It's been only a couple of weeks since billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter, and the ensuing, well, chaos has been late-night comedy gold. MARTIN: Clark is an associate professor in journalism and communications studies at Northeastern University, and she's the author of a forthcoming book on Black Twitter. MARTIN: So …

Column: With Elon Musk in charge, it’s the beginning of the end for #BlackTwitter
2 years, 8 months ago

Column: With Elon Musk in charge, it’s the beginning of the end for #BlackTwitter

LA Times  

It’s all rather disturbing and yet somehow fitting in these doublespeak-steeped times. “Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated,” Musk said Monday, announcing that he had succeeded in taking over the San Francisco-based social media company for $44 billion. Business Elon Musk reaches $44-billion deal to buy Twitter The social media …

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
3 years, 5 months ago

A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I

Wired  

Near the end of 2009, during the twilight months of a decade that saw the first Black man elected to the US presidency, Ashley Weatherspoon was chasing virality on a young app called Twitter. Illustration: Aaron Marin It was the first Sunday in September, at exactly 4:25 pm, when Weatherspoon logged on to Twitter and wrote, “#uknowurblackwhen u cancel plans …

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