Aug 12, 2010
How black people use Twitter
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If you pay any attention to trending topics on Twitter, you’ve probably noticed that a surprising number of the most popular hashtags seem to be almost exclusively used by African-Americans.
Over at Slate, Farhad Manjoo offers an analysis as to why this might be and what it might mean.
I’ve been curious about this phenomenon from time to time, so I’m interested to see some folks with more scholarly aptitude and cultural awareness than I have looking into it and sharing their best guesses with the rest of us.
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i was seriously just wondering about that the other day. crazy!
Totally!
I noticed the other day that I was the only whitie that used the tag #thatisall.
But what does it *mean*?
My wife thought I was crazy for noting this last month. Interesting read.