The Bombastic Brilliance of "Black Twitter" 3.0

It was the headline seen around the world. “L.A. Times Hires Reporter to Cover Black Twitter.” There were cheers, jeers, moans and groans. But there was at least one person—-@drgoddess—who wasn’t surprised at all. Like all things groundbreaking at SXSW, in 2012, Kimberly C. Ellis, Ph.D. aka @DrGoddess, gave the first, solo presentation on a community using the social media site, “Twitter,” which also launched at SXSW several years prior. Black Twitter is a phenomenon has taken the entire world by storm, not the least of which has been a movement with a hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, presently shaping the Presidential election cycle in the USA. @BLCK is Social Media, Social TV & Social Studies.