The way I would define Black Twitter is a space where Black culture specifically was hanging out in a digital way... it still felt like you were having conversations with your friends that are like on the back of the bus. Or like on the stoop, or in the lunchroom. I mean, that's the energy of it.
Twitter felt special because there was no real hierarchy, especially in the early days... That meant that even celebrities weren't immune to being mocked, or acting out on their own social media profiles.
This was kind of an equalization of a lot of things, that somebody in Kentucky who nobody knows could have the same strong opinion as someone who you revere, right?... we don't really have spaces that are kind of a level playing ground in this country.
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