“Black Twitter is a force. It’s also not particularly well understood by those who aren’t a part of it. The term is used to describe a large network of black Twitter users and their loosely coordinated interactions, many of which accumulate into trending topics due to the network’s size, interconnectedness, and unique activity.”
“This was the network largely responsible for focusing the nation’s attention to the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last August. Witnesses to Brown’s killing broke the news via social media. Within moments, their accounts of what happened spread through the Twittersphere with the hashtags #Ferguson and #MikeBrown.”
What I know: w/o #Ferguson movements & #BlackLivesMatter, the #WalterScott story would not have been the lead story on the @nytimes homepage
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) April 8, 2015
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