In 2014, Twitter helped tell the #Ferguson story. St. Louisans are concerned about its future
St. Louis on the Air
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Twitter as a Vehicle for Organizing
Twitter is about connecting, building community, politicizing folks in real time. If Twitter goes away, you will question how people who maybe were not on the front lines of dealing with things like racism or sexism or misogyny don't have a place to sort of create their consciousness. You don't get the Me Too movement without people being able to log online. See the march turnout where you have millions of people in the streets in 2020. That's an evolution that comes from the way social media was used during the Ferguson uprising.
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