A look at BlackPlanet, a social network for African Americans that went live in 1999, had ~15M users in 2008, and arguably laid the foundation for Black Twitter (Hannah Giorgis/The Atlantic)

Hannah Giorgis / The Atlantic:
A have a look at BlackPlanet, a social community for African People that went reside in 1999, had ~15M customers in 2008, and arguably laid the muse for Black Twitter  —  Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a misplaced period when social media was nonetheless enjoyable  —  A couple of years in the past, Stephanie Williams and her husband fielded …