Why Are So Many Black People On Twitter?
There are a lot of black people on Twitter. The numbers, taken from the annual report on Twitter by Edison Research, don’t lie. While black people make up about 12% of the general population, they account for 25% of the population of users on Twitter. I always felt like this was true in my day [...]
Read MoreNumber of African-Americans on Facebook Mirrors US Makeup
Facebook’s Data Team released a very interesting post on Facebook’s blog late last night that reviled the ethnic make-up of Facebook as well as trends in adoption over the past several years. How you ask, especially when Facebook doesn’t request demographic information from it’s users upon registration? They used a mixed modeling method based on surnames. The whole experiment was started to answer the question “How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook?” In the blog post they explain more about how surnames we used to determine race:
Read More#blck on Twitter
The past few days we noticed a hashtag appear on Twitter that we hadn’t seen before: #blck. In a system that doesn’t allow for the creation of communities, an easy search for robust profiles, the “#blck is a tag created at first with the idea that you can identify yourself as a “black person” on [...]
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