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• @wired @wired on x

  This is a record of Blackness—how it moves and thrives online, how it creates, how it communes—told through the eyes of those who lived it. Here is the first official chronicling of how it all came together so fantastically: https://www.wired.com/... 5/

• @wired @wired on x

  .@Twitter was founded 15 years ago with the goal of changing how people communicate online. But what started as a fun app for socializing gave way to something bigger: it became a voice for the voiceless: https://www.wired.com/... 🎨: Aaron Marin 1/ https://twitter.com/...

• @longreads @longreads on x

  “We make spaces out of spaces where we were not intended to be. That's what we do.” @nonlinearnotes @WIRED https://www.wired.com/... #longreads

• @niemanlab @niemanlab on x

  “It took ABC News at least an hour before his passing came across the news ticker in Times Square. I remember thinking, ‘Damn, Twitter broke this news.’” https://www.wired.com/...

• @publicsourcepa PublicSource on x

  “Black Twitter has become the most dynamic subset not only of Twitter but of the wider social internet. It is both news and analysis, call and response, judge and jury—a comedy showcase, therapy session, and family cookout all in one.” via @WIRED https://www.wired.com/...

• @sesmith S. E. Smith on x

  Black Twitter is a social and cultural phenomenon that has had PROFOUND impact, and this is a detailed oral history on the subject. https://www.wired.com/...

• @raju Raju Narisetti on x

  A People's History of Black Twitter, Part I From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future. https://www.wired.com/...? via @wired

• @anthony @anthony on x

  Black Twitter has become the most dynamic subset not only of Twitter but of the wider social internet. Capable of creating, shaping, and remixing popular culture at light speed, it remains the incubator of nearly every meme worth knowing about https://www.wired.com/...

• @glichfield Gideon Lichfield on x

  Really proud that @WIRED is publishing @nonlinearnotes' oral history of Black Twitter—"a kind of record of Blackness—how it moves and thrives online, how it creates, how it communes—told through the eyes of those who lived it." This is part 1 of 3. https://www.wired.com/...

• @alexwhitcomb Alex Whitcomb on x

  15 years ago today, Twitter launched as a fun, quippy way to connect people online. We all know the trouble it has gotten into since then, but it also did something else: it gave a voice to the voiceless. A powerful beauty from @nonlinearnotes: https://www.wired.com/...

• @wired @wired on x

  .@Twitter launched 15 years ago today, with the goal of changing how people communicate online. Now, @nonlinearnotes reconstructs the story of its most influential user group. Here, in all its melanated glory, is A People's History of Black Twitter: https://www.wired.com/...

• @glichfield Gideon Lichfield on x

  So because I'm the editor of this @WIRED thing, I get to read parts 2 and 3 of @nonlinearnotes's People's History of Black Twitter before you all do. And let me tell you, you're in for a treat. https://www.wired.com/...

• @wired @wired on x

  Black Twitter is a multiverse, simultaneously an archive and an all-seeing lens into the future. 4/

• @wired @wired on x

  The ingenious use of the app by Black users created a ripple effect that resulted in the creation of black community and empowerment. 2/

• @wired @wired on x

  More than a decade later, Black Twitter has become the most dynamic subset not only of Twitter but of the wider social internet—capable of creating, shaping, and remixing popular culture at light speed. 🎨: Aaron Marin 3/ https://twitter.com/...

• @condelibrary Condé Nast Library on x

  “Like all histories, it is incomplete. But it is a beginning. An outline. Think of it as a kind of record of Blackness—how it moves and thrives online, how it creates, how it communes—told through the eyes of those who lived it.” - @nonlinearnotes https://www.wired.com/... @WIRED

• @kozza @kozza on x

  I believe I have achieved full meta. Spoke with the homie @nonlinearnotes for h̶i̶s̶ our oral history of Black Twitter, and I couldn't be more honored. With illustrious company. https://www.wired.com/...