#TLDR: Twitter is Changing Everything

Abstract

Twitter. What some view as just a social media site to see and share ratings with dogs; politicians and journalists are now finding it a requirement of their daily jobs. Politicians are using Twitter in an attempt to circumvent the gatekeeping that media has performed for generations while journalists are trying to keep up and verify all the news sent through it. No one has relied more on Twitter than President Donald J. Trump who uses his account to not only get around the gatekeeping function of the press, but to change the news cycle all together.

Home Is Where the Ok Is? Early Okayplayer Message Boards & an Ethos of Acknowledgment

“…As my fellow player @Melanism once said, “Okayplayer was the Negro Leagues of Black twitter” (S. Campbell, 2019). The wit, the memes, the names, the jokes as founding member @DeePhunk explained you can trace these things now endemic to black twitter, to the insular world of early rap message boards, especially Okayplayer (@Hardy, 2021b).…”