I identified with that meme that was going around that was like too old for TikTok.

And like not enough of a baddie for Instagram.

Like, y'all can't take this away from me.

Hey there, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.

I'm Brittany Loose.

Elon Musk has been at the helm of Twitter for 48 days and it's been chaotic.

He stripped the company of over 7,000 employees and much of the confidence that the social

platform can stay alive.

I mean, a few weekends ago, a lot of us logged on to see if the site was still running.

And if Twitter dies, so too with the online communities that have been built on the platform.

And one of the most influential of those communities and the one dearest to me is Black Twitter.

It was a sort of Fubu acidic for us and bias.

That's Jason Parham.

He's a senior writer for Wire.com and he's written a lot about Black Twitter, which is if

you know, you know, the loose community of Black people, including writers, activists,

celebs and everyday users who regularly lead conversation on the app.

Black Twitter has launched a thousand memes.

But it's also the birthplace of world-shifting social movements.

Seeing those videos of George Floyd's arrest and his death spread across Twitter and Instagram

and a movement was born.

But the hashtag Black Lives Matter has been shared on Twitter a record 8.8 million times.

The lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees topped headlines and dominated social media.

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