History of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter: Social activism on Twitter
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 16, 2024
In recent years, social media have become a common way for political groups and social movements to organize. On Twitter’s 10-year anniversary, the site published a list of the most used hashtags related to social causes. Two of the top three were directly related to issues of race. According to Twitter, #Ferguson was the most used social-issue hashtag in the 10-year history of the platform, while #BlackLivesMatter was third . . .
