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Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter | Pew Research Center

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Along with fielding a survey of public attitudes toward Black Lives Matter, political engagement and activism on social media in general, Pew Research Center also conducted a separate analysis of activity around #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter. The phrase “Black lives matter” first appeared in a July 2013 Facebook post by activist Alicia Garza, following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Use of #BlackLivesMatter as a hashtag quickly spread to other social media sites such as Twitter. Over the ensuing decade, the Black Lives Matter movement has been a consistent and substantial topic of conversation on Twitter. We collected all publicly available tweets containing the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag going all the way back to 2013 – more than 44 million tweets in total.5 We then examined these tweets to understand: Over the last decade, the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag has appeared in 3,024 tweets on a typical (median) day. However, its use has surged well ab

Report | June 29, 2023 #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10 1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter X Facebook Threads LinkedIn WhatsApp Mail Add Us On Google By Samuel Bestvater , Risa Gelles-Watnick , Meltem Odabaş , Monica Anderson and Aaron Smith Table of Contents #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10 1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter 2. Americans’ views of and experiences with activism on social media Appendix Acknowledgments Methodology Along with fielding a survey of public attitudes toward Black Lives Matter, political engagement and activism on social media in general, Pew Research Center

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