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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 ...
Jordana Wright launched the app to serve as a forever home to Black users. And it couldn't have come at a better time. When creating a profile for the Black Twitter App, one of the prompts asks ...
the streamer got an immediate earful from … Black Twitter. Users complained of appropriation, of big media big-footing, of The Man swooping in to claim a piece of a sacred subculture.
Black users make up some of social media’s most engaged, influential audiences. They are now also among the thousands of people who have left X, formerly Twitter, citing a flood of bots ...
Founded by two Black ex-Twitter employees, Spill is the most recent platform that some Black social media users have flocked to in response to Elon Musk's actions on that platform. A new social ...
Amid the mass exodus from X, many wonder what the future holds for Black Twitter. As numerous users continue their exodus from X, formerly known as Twitter, many are beginning to question what ...
When April Reign became part of the loose community of Black users recognized as Black Twitter in 2010, her feed flooded with unfiltered opinions, jaw-dropping confessions, and countless jokes.
While user activity has ebbed and flowed over the years, Twitter has been hard to kill. However, its newest threats might very well be the one, two punch that takes the platform out. Black Twitter ...
Hulu’s docuseries “Black Twitter: A People’s History” chronicles the rise of a subculture that transformed the social media platform. Black users were already disproportionately present in ...
More limitations on Twitter lead many Black Twitter users to join other social media platforms, like the new Black-owned app Spill. (Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images ...