Devindra has been writing about the way technology intersects with our lives for nearly 20 years. He started the Amherst Student's first technology column, worked in IT support for many (many) years, and eventually moved to Brooklyn to cover New York's tech scene in 2009.
They say "Twitter isn't real life," but Black Twitter proved otherwise. For years, that phrase has been a way to ignore the real-world impact of social media conversations, especially when they spark radically new ideas. But that's clearly not true when you look at Black Twitter , an unofficial community made up of the site's black users, which inspired culturally significant movements with hashtags like, explores the rise and global influence of the community.
Twitter also felt genuinely different from the other social networks in the late 2000s. At the time, Facebook was mostly focused on connecting you with schoolmates and family members — it wasn't really a place for simply hanging out and joking around. Prentice notes that the forced brevity on Twitter also made it unique, since you had to really focus on what you were trying to say in 140 characters.
Twitter Black Culture Social Media Blacklivesmatter Hulu Prentice Penny
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
‘Black Twitter: A People’s History’: Here’s How to Stream the Hulu Documentary for Free'Black Twitter: A People’s History' documentary premieres on Hulu on Thursday (May 9). Here's how to stream it online for free
Read more »
Black Twitter: A People’s History Proves That “American Culture Is Black Culture”The docuseries’ director, Prentice Penny, explains the throughlines between a platform, its Black users, and the way that confluence forever changed politics and culture.
Read more »
Bentayga Black Edition Is First Bentley with Black Logo in 105 YearsThe Bentayga S still offers the full suite of colors, but don't be a fool—pick some shade of black, it's in the name, after all.
Read more »
Black Twitter: A People’s History Is a Necessary Archive Contextualizing the Impact of Modern Black CultureIn this op-ed, Ellice Ellis argues that the much-criticized Hulu docuseries Black Twitter: A People's History is an essential cultural archive of Black power.
Read more »
Why the Voices of Black Twitter Were Worth SavingBlack Twitter has been a cultural engine for well over a decade. It could also disappear at any time.
Read more »
'Black Twitter: A People's History' tells how humor and hashtags fostered a subcultureThe three-part Hulu docuseries traces how Black people have used the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, now X, as a means of communal expression.
Read more »