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It may not be as well-defined as Black Twitter, but there’s now a distinct community of Jewish tweeters with a shared sensibility and set of concerns

By Marc Tracy|February 15, 2012 7:00 AM|4comments
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THE INGENUE

Name: Tavi Gevinson

Handle: @tavitulle

Day job: High school sophomore, editor of Rookie

Claim to fame: She has gone from fashion icon to zeitgeist-y, razor-sharp editor all in a couple years’ time. And she’s 15.

Followers: 48,048

How Jewish? 6. “Happy new year to my fellow tribe members”

Specialty: Striking the exact right balance between the level of self-awareness Twitter requires and genuine earnestness. Not incidentally, this is also what makes her credible as a precocious yet real teenager.

It’s a shame you can’t see on twitter that everything i say is immediately followed with either a cringe or mumbling about hating myself

 

Christmas Tweet:


If you like her, you should also follow: @manrepeller

Sample Tweets:

my mom just described tonight as “menstruation shabbat”

Continue reading: The Porn Star

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Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
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  • Paul Terry

    Another too long story from Mark Tracy, this time with a racist opening.

  • Christopher Orev

    #Lazy You didn’t read past the first page, did you? @PaulTerry

  • Shalom Freedman

    Inanity is inanity, Jewish or not.

  • http://www.marjorieingall.com marjorie

    Love the notion of Jewish tweeters! Love Margarita Korol’s art. But the layout made this hard to read — either put all the tweets in boxes or none. And I think when a piece is this long, it has to be really tight; the what-makes-each-user-Jewish reasoning was often tenuous, the mix of Kaplans was a bit confusing to read (and awfully inside-baseball) and the layout didn’t help with the disjointedness. (But other than that, Mrs Lincoln, I really did like the play.)

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It may not be as well-defined as Black Twitter, but there’s now a distinct community of Jewish tweeters with a shared sensibility and set of concerns