In Black Twitter: A People's History⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, A Platform Changes the Culture and a Culture Changes a Platform
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From the death of Osama bin Laden (as announced by Dwayne Johnson) to the rise of Donald Trump, from #TheDress to the Oscars slap, it’s impossible to imagine the last twenty or so years of global cultural history without Twitter, the microblogging platform that no one has ever referred to as “X.” And over the past two decades, no subsection of the app’s vast user base has produced more enduring memes, more culture-shifting social-justice hashtags, and more pure comedy than the cohort known as...

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