jamila, what is black twitter?we commune kate in our neighborhoods, barber shops, churches, schools, it is our village. >> think of black twitter as harlem. black folks made it cool and white people are trying to move in. >> what we do on social media is we index, use it more than anybody else and have it on mobile and by our side 24 hours day. >> while we make up 20% of the u.s. population, 25% of twitter users are on black twitter. if anybody can back it up, elon james white. >> one of the major parts of black twitter is the ability to force a conversation that otherwise would be ignored. >> hashtag oscar so white made the oscars more black. you got ferguson, "black lives matter," bring back our girls. >> ferguson, mike brown getting shot, i knew about that before it hit the news because i was seeing tweets from st. louis and ferguson his body hadn't been picked up yet. >> movements that would have taken weeks to mobilize can be organized in ours. >> george zimmerman wouldn't have been tried at all if not for bla