Here's an interesting fact about Twitter: Black people love it. According to a study by Edison Research, we make up 25 percent of the 17 million (and counting) people who use the social networking site. And here's something else about black people and Twitter: We love to start trends — trending topics, that is.
Twitter defines trending topics as the 'new or newsworthy topics that are occupying the most people's attention on Twitter at any one time.' Adding a hashtag (#) to a tweet creates a themed, grouped message. If enough people tweet the same hashtag, it's considered a trending topic.
