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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. No doubt.

At least one of these hashtags is familiar to you.

Me too. Black Lives Matter.

Oscar So White. Black Girl Magic. I can't breathe.

All of them took hold on the platform formerly known as Twitter.

And to put a finer point on it, Black Twitter.

Now, what exactly is Black Twitter?

There was a tweet at one point where they were like,

where is black Twitter?

Like is it like they thought it was like a secret you are

or we had different logins and like or is it a location? Is it Black

Twitter.com like is there a special tweet I send which opens a portal for us muggles to get into the special club?

There's not an extra tab or there's not an email that you get where you want to sign up.

It's just sort of there.

And what you discover very quickly within the world of black Twitter is that all of these combined regions,

mentality, political views, everything is sandwiched into one place.

That's from the Hulu three-part documentary series Black Twitter, a people's history,

which charts the voices and movements that made this element of Twitter

an influential force in American Politics and Culture.

Our guest today is Prentiss Penny, the director and executive producer of the series, which

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