Until Elon Musk bought Twitter last fall, April Reign thought she couldn’t live without the platform. Over 13 years and 641,000 tweets, she became part of a community of extremely online Black users who shared everything from funny memes to job opportunities.
Fleeing Elon Musk’s X, the quest to re-create ‘Black Twitter’
The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a ‘digital diaspora’ in search of a new home
August 6, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EDT