take a look at my last two tweets. in 30 minutes one received more retweets than the tweet that was posted 2hrs ago. this happens all the time when i tweet about africa. at first i was thinking it’s just a specific anti blackness (which it is a little true) but it’s more about...
the algorithms. i also wondered why my tweets about the continent never go viral but all my other ones do. apparently certain words have a history of not getting “clicks” and twitter logs that and pushes those tweets further down. this is why it’s incredibly hard to get info...
about what’s happening on the continent. we have to always remember the programming of these apps are inherently white supremacist. it’s important that we share information about africa as much as possible. this is how we strengthen our global solidarity
