Jason Howell and Megan Morrone celebrate the first day of Black History Month with a discussion of @blackbirds, a new Twitter bot you can follow or chat with about black Americans of the past and present. Black employees at Twitter developed and manage the bot. Writing in TechCrunch, Megan Rose Dickey says you'll be able to interact with the bot through DM in short replies.

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