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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CNN still playing with the race card stuck on stupid is a requirement to work there.
Correct. Most of Twitter employees have always been “RED”. (Pure Communist _tards)
Anti-black racism: pointing out that blacks account for over half of homicide and robbery arrests, and that, if anything, police are putting themselves at risk to AVOID shooting black perps, in order to avoid an excuse for blacks rioting.
There’s a Black Twitter? That must have started after Twitter banned me on January 7, 2021.
As Obama said, "You didn't build that!"
Pray tell, what are those "values"? The only vales I attribute to Musk are free speech and entrepreneurism. Do you guys reject those?
Good!
If there’s a “black twitter” there should be a “brown twitter”, “Asian twitter”, and “white twitter” or it’s extremely racist and against twitter rules.
Just like in Chicago and Philadelphia, eh?
Never heard of Black Twitter.... Don’t care.
“Until reading this I didn’t even know there was a Black Twitter.”
There isn’t.
BlackTwitter is more of a nebulous idea than an actual thing. It is simply a collection of Tweets with content that is black culture-centric.
There is no membership or group (like on Facebook) to join. A person of any color or ethnicity can follow or post to these topics.
Twitter algorithms feed people what they seem to be interested in. If that’s black culture, then that’s what they’ll get.
Move to Haiti. No evyil whitey there to torment you. I hear South Sudan is nice too.
“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”
Translation: if Musk gets rid of the bots, then black radical tweets won’t be trending, and if Musk allows free speech, any that do trend will get shouted down and ratioed.
Elon Musk can make anything work. The institutionalized opposition to his success has all of the publicity and none of the leverage.
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