
People under the circle will see a green badge and are not able to share or retweet posts to people outside the circle. Users can add up to 150 people to a circle, and the list can be adjusted. Before posting a tweet, users can decide whether to share it with their circle or full followers list. The tool launched in July and allows users to control who can engage and interact with their content on the platform. That may be why some Black women are turning to Twitter Circle. And Black women were 84% more likely than white women to be mentioned in abusive or problematic tweets. In its research on internet trolls, the group found that overall, women of color were 34% more likely to be mentioned in "abusive or problematic tweets" than white women. Creating a beauty salon vibe in a post-pandemic online spaceĪccording to Amnesty International's Amnesty Decoders, a volunteer group that works to uncover digital human rights violations, Black women experience a disproportionate amount of online abuse. The recent addition of tools like Twitter Circle (people you've allowed to see specific posts) and Instagram Favorites (people you've given priority in your feed) have helped Black women build community despite not seeing each other in person. Mainly because the pandemic made it impossible to meet in person in typical gathering spaces - beauty salons and Bible study groups -young Black women have taken to gathering on social media platforms to interact and talk with each other. "I didn't necessarily feel safe publicly my support or sympathies during the overturning of Roe v Wade," LaRochelle said, so creating a Twitter Circle seemed a good alternative.
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She chose Twitter Circle, which let her determine who would see her posts, and immediately tweeted links on how to give and get money for abortions.


Wade, writer Gabrielle LaRochelle, 24, decided she needed to curate her own safe space online. At the end of June, a few days after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
