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May 10Twemographics?
Twitter is 254% black.
The article posits some theories as to why blacks are proportionally overrepresented, including celebrity role models, mobile Internet adoption, and youth. The celebrity argument doesn’t pass the sniff test, but the other two seem plausible. Also, I don’t claim to have an explanation for this, but I’ve also noticed that the non-news-driven trending topic hashtags are usually dominated by black Twitterers (Exceptions in Monday afternoon’s trending topics: #DearJonasBrothers and Justin Bieber).
Naturally, on a topic this anodyne, reasonable discourse prevails.
Tagged: technology, twits, web
May 3rd, 2010 at 5:11 pm
re those comments: hahahahaha.
if we’re going by racial foods, hispanics got nothin on us asians in terms of spicy personalities.