Posted on 11/29/2022 5:59:15 AM PST by lowbridge
Black Twitter is mourning the possible end of the influential community they found on Twitter more than a decade ago, but users are split between finding a new app or staying put.
“I’m not ready to go because I feel like that’s the case with a lot of things. Black people bring culture, community and love and so much energy and spirit and soul to whatever places we inhabit, and then someone else comes in and totally disrupts the energy and we leave, and they benefit from what we built,” Eunique Jones Gibson, an avid Twitter user and CEO of the marketing company Culture Brands, told CNN.
Gibson, like numerous other Black users, has bonded with strangers and elevated movements like “Black Lives Matter” and “Bring Back Our Girls” while using Black Twitter – the subset of the social media platform where Black people have conversations about everything from culture to race to identity.
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“We all see ourselves in this predicament where we’re now, like, ‘Dang, we built this up and now it belongs to someone who doesn’t share our same values,” Gibson said.
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Charlton Mcllwain, a professor New York University and author of “Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter,” said Black Twitter does its own thinking, and Musk won’t change it. However, McIlwain says Musk could alter the platform to make it difficult to find each other or amplify other users’ tweets, or create a hostile environment.
“Amplifying the voices of White supremacist users and transforming the platform into a haven for anti-Black racism or racism targeting other identities could also negatively impact Black Twitter by creating an environment that users deem simply too hostile to be worth it,” McIllwain said.
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Black Twitter: Racism alive and well in the good ol USA.
Black Twitter?
Nothing can exclude blacks, or even be suggested they aren’t welcome, but there are “black” versions of just about everything. I’d be fine with it it they would stick to their own, but they want their own, and everything else too.
You want “black Twitter”? Stay the heck off everybody else’s Twitter. I am absolutely over all this special negro nonsense.
What about Red Twitter?
They do? Are Chicago and Pittsburgh pretty good examples?
If there is a black twitter, exclusively for blacks, then why is there not a white twitter, exclusively for whites? Why is the former allowed, but not the latter?
“Black Twitter”?
Seriously?
I never have, am not now and never will be, a Tweetie user.
In other words, Marxism.
Every single city in the US is ruined by a specific demographic.
Never heard of it.
They have a special Twitter for blacks only?
How apartheidy.
Do these retards understand they’re racist?
Do they understand they’re fuel for white supremacists?
Y’all didn build dat…
Spoken like a true community organizer
According to them, whites don’t need a special group as they run everything. For example, every day is White day according to them, so no need for a special month whites get hired easily, so no need for affirmative action for whites and on and on and on.
We don't have a race problem, we have a problem race. That is a shame, it doesn't have to be that way.
is there a rational, independent, individual thought, decision, and judgment twitter?
Because self-segregation and racism is OK when the right people do it.
/sarc
Don’t worry, you place on the porch of the plantation isn’t going away.
cnn.......if all else fails pit the races against one another.
Straight out of hell.......and I mean that literally.
“Never heard of it.”
When you see videos of mobs going into stores and walking out with whatever they can carry, you’re seeing it in action.
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