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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It shouldn’t be that way, but every experience and data point I have encountered points that way.
Going from public school in San Jose to public school in Wilmington DE opens one’s eyes.
Japanese Americans don’t behave like east coast blacks.
There are always outliers, but they are numerous sigma outliers…
It’s the same Twitter, only used by Black people to talk about Black things.
I don’t really do Twitter, but I suppose if you use the right hashtag your message goes to people who want to read messages with that hashtag. It’s built into the platform.
So it could be Birdwatchers’ Twitter or Washing Machine Salesmen’s Twitter or Nosepickers’ Twitter if those are your interests.
Black Twitter? 1) Do you have to show some kind of black ID to use it? 2) Why should either I or Musk care if a bunch of (non-bot) users join together to discuss ‘black’ stuff?
Much of Twitter was already red before Elon took over.
Your observations are the same as mine. Even people from South America tend to assimilate eventually unless they are cartel/MS13 types.
A public admission that all Black people are just plain RACIST!!!
Racists blaming their failures on The Scapegoat Race.
“Black people bring culture, community and love and so much energy and spirit and soul...”
Black people bring culture, community and love and so much energy and spirit and soul and CRIME, and drugs, and violence and babies without fathers and rap music...
Until reading this I didn’t even know there was a Black Twitter. If they are really concerned they can start their own service and get away from that mean Elon Musk.
“Black people bring culture, community and love and so much energy and spirit and soul”
Yup. Just look at the lovely inner cities teeming with happiness.
Yep, sounds extremely racist to me. anything that emphasis color over talent, intelligence, and hard work over the product, sounds racist..
Sounds good. Do black persons have to post there?
😂😂😂😵💫 Seems that eunique has bought into the ‘mis/dis/mal-information’ being spewed around out there. Boosting all the positive things ‘#blm’ has done? Really? Left positive vibes? Really? Found white suprema-cysts damn near everywhere? Really? More like hate and divisiveness scattered about nearly everyplace. But, unlike these assclowns, some of us defend their right to say what they want. Thinking they aren’t of the same mind set. Quit watching the liars on the lame stream outlets eunique.
LOL!
“we built this up and now it belongs to someone “
In the words of a different fool...”You didn’t build that!”
If it meant that much to you, why didn’t you arrange to own it. That’s how you keep control of something.
Cut the cr@p.
Black people bring murder, theft, and general lawlessness to whatever places they inhabit.
ML/NJ
Fake news from CNN
I guess you get a black checkmark.
By the marxists’ own definition... isn’ “black twitter” racist?
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