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15 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
.@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: wired.trib.al/2oysd5j
🎨: Aaron Marin 1/
The ingenious use of the app by Black users created a ripple effect that resulted in the creation of black community and empowerment. 2/
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/
Black Twitter is a multiverse, simultaneously an archive and an all-seeing lens into the future. 4/
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: wired.trib.al/2oysd5j 5/
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