The habits of use on twitter by marginalized persons through the affordances of the platform result in unique kinds of community formation that are resilient to and in opposition to the attempts by Elon Musk and others to turn it into a Nazi bar. These uses largely go ignored in analysis like yours.

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Brock argues that the nature of twitter thereby enables unique manifestations of Black Joy which can be circulated among the greater Black community in ways distinct from the local offline community or on other sites like Facebook, Instagram, or even threads. This is important as it points to use.

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Similarly, Brock argues that the functions of twitter, retweeting and hashtags as example, allow for the articulation of Black cultural practices within digital space such that nuanced performances of Blackness and discussions of issues facing the Black community can be circulated among Black users.

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Put simply, the design level structure of twitter enables unique ways that users can become visible to one another. Beyond this, other affordances of the platform enable the unique establishment of social networks, including networks of support and mutual aid that rely on twitter's functions.

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By affordances, I mean the unique design features of twitter through which users interact with the platform and other users on the platform. These affordances enable the legibility of users along different dimensions of identity as Brock, boyd, and others have pointed out. This is issue one.

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