The director and showrunner of 'Black Twitter: A People's History' discuss how they documented more than a decade of jokes and social movements.

He primarily used Twitter for Los Angeles Lakers updates, “and that was sort of my entryway into Black Twitter, this sort of coming from the N.B.A. world,” he said.

Meanwhile, Twitter, in a cost-cutting decision, dropped the number of its employees (including many prominent engineers) from 7,500 to 1,300, a decline of about 80%.

Now, the so-called “King of NBA Twitter” is set to stand in the spotlight himself. Johnson stars in the new documentary, Memes & Nightmares, which premieres June 14 at the Tribeca Film Festival.