‘Who is Rodney King?’ ‘The Titanic was real?!?’ Twitter’s generation gap
06-19-2012 04:08 AM
On Sunday, a few hours after he was found dead in a California swimming pool at age 47, Rodney King--a central figure in the 1992 L.A. riots--began trending on Twitter. News of King's death was quickly followed by a related, if disturbing, Twitter trend: "Who is Rodney King?" "Who is Rodney King?" Briauna Mariee, identified [...]
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