know, your black win to hashtag oscarssowhite and hashtag black lives matter wired magazine's jason parham best explained black twitter in his 2021 oral history this way, it is both news and analysis. call and response judge and jury a comedy showcase therapy session, family cookout all in one. black twitter is a multiverse simultaneously an archive and an all seeing lens into the future but what is black twitter's future now? after elon musk turned twitter into x, the online community already felt in limbo. and now, with a lot of users leaving, are not just engaging with the platform post-election, could the culture survive on alternative platforms like blue sky, which have seen a recent surge in interest andre brock is an associate professor at georgia tech, where he researches cyber cultures like black twitter. he's also the author of distributed blackness african american cyber cultures andre, thank you for being with me. um, is that your characterization? let me come to you. authority on black social media and cyber cultures. are we defining black twitter the right way here absolutely