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twitter Home Profile Messages Black Twitter History @NewsOneOfficial New York, NY How Black America put Twitter on blast NEWSONE Tweet to NewOneOftficial Tweets Favorites Following, Followers ▼ Lists ▼ Jan 2007 First study noticing racial divide in social networks Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd notes Facebook users are whiter and richer, Myspace users poorer, more diverse 5 years ago Jun 2009 OMG! Black Peoplel Blogger creates site to document white backlash to surging use of Twitter trending topics and hashtags by Black Americans 3 years ago Why are al these black people on trending toplcs? Neyo? Beyonce? Tyra? Jamie ForX? it black histery moath again2 LOL Oct 2009First study of Black "over-indexing" on Twitter Pew Research Center notes that 26 percent of Black Americans online use Twitter, versus 19 percent of White Americans. 2 years ago Nov 2009 Twitter starts "curating" trending topics Ostensibly to remove spam and "noise" from the Twitterverse, Twitter begins removing certain trending topics, which to some users is a veiled attempt to "whiten the discourse on the social network 2 years ago Nov 2009 White blogger coins term "Black Twitter"? In a post on website The Awl, blogger Choire Sicha comments on the phenomenon of Late night Black People Twitter," which he shortens to "Black People Twitter." 2 years ago " leaves befor" vo" Apr 2010 Study: Blacks represent 1/4 of Twitter users Edison Research says that Black participation on Twitter is double their share of general population. But other experts challenge the validity of the research, saying that the sample size was too small to be accurate year ago May 2010 Gawker piece on ..#things blackpeopledo" trend Mainstream bemusement and snark reaches a new milestone as Gawker posts "What This Asian Man Leamed from the Things Black People Do' Twitter Trend 1 year ago Jul 2010 White Flight" from Myspace to Facebook Danah Boyd strikes again, this time using the term "white flight in a study of white teens leaving the Myspace "ghetto" for the more collegiate Facebook. 1 year ago Aug 2010 Slate article amuses some, offends others Farhad Manjoo's "How Black People Use Twitter vexes some of the people he interviewed in its "voyeuristic" approach and its now- famous and parodied Twitter bird in a baseball cap 1 year ago Jan 2011 TheRoot: Black Twitter Bad! Black oriented website TheRoot offers the first comprehensive analysis of Black Twitter from an African American perspective albeit a conservative one 11 months ago May 2011 Yet another study. Guess what it said Northwestern University study confirms what most folks already know: young Black college students use Twitter more than their white counterparts, by about 16 percentage points. 8 months ago May 2011 TheRoot: Black Twitter Good! John McWhorter salutes Twitter's "Black tilt as wonderfullyy irreverent, another example of Black cultural innovation and influence 8 months ago May 2011 "Shut Up About Black Twitter Already" Black blogger and NewsOne contributor Elon James White begs,in The Root "Stop. Please just stop.. I can't deal with any more faux anthropological studies." Sorry, Elon, here's another one 8 months ago Jun 2011 Study: 25% of Blacks online use Twitter The Pew Research Center makes it crystal clear that when it comes to Twitter, white folks don't pace anywhere near close to the rate that Black and brown people use the service 7 months ago Jun 2011 Enter planking Some said it started with white hipsters. Others said it was a distant, ominous echo of the slave ships that plied the Atlantic, Whatever the case, young Black Tweeters became rigid with enthusiasm over this latest viral craze. 7 months ago Sep 2011 The Troy Davis conspiracy When the hashtags #Troy Davis and #toomuchdoubt disappear from Twitter's top trending topics, activists and artists like Outkasts Big Boi cry conspiracy. Twitter had indeed censored trending topics before, so it wasn't farfetched to imagine it would happen again. SOURCES AVAILABLE AT: NEW SONE INFOGRAPHIC ⓒ 2011 STaFE/BLaCK-TwiTTeR-HESTORYenFOGRapHIc/

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