Black Twitter. Screenshots of Black people being hilarious or insightful on social media, it doesn't need to just be twitter but obviously that is best. Founded 2014 · 6.3M members · links only
6.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached
195.7K upvotes, which works out to
31 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Image 77%Video 17%Gallery 5%Text 1%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
TikTok Tuesday 89Country Club Thread 87Wholesome Post™️ 2Bad Title 1Shit title 1RIP 1Good Title 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
r/BlackPeopleTwitter ("Black Twitter") describes itself this way: Screenshots of Black people being hilarious or insightful on social media, it doesn't need to just be twitter but obviously that is best. It was founded in 2014 and has 6.3M members.
How many members does r/BlackPeopleTwitter have?
r/BlackPeopleTwitter has about 6.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 697 of its posts; the biggest reached 195.7K upvotes, which is 31 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
"The hateful people can't stand being called hateful." reached 195.7K upvotes and 2.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BlackPeopleTwitter.
What subreddits are similar to r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/interesting, r/antiwork, r/urbanexploration, r/youseeingthisshit, r/law, r/perfectlycutscreams.
What kind of posts do best on r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
Of the posts we hold, 77% are image posts and 17% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
Across 697 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (79.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (79.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 19:00 UTC (67.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BlackPeopleTwitter?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BlackPeopleTwitter has 121.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 171 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/BlackPeopleTwitter, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.