WASHINGTON DC, USA – Twitter users have posted the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag, a sign of solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, more than 5 million times, Twitter France said Friday, January 9.
The symbolic 5-million mark, an unprecedented number in the history of France-related hashtags, was reached after elite forces killed the brothers suspected of the massacre and a jihadist ally in a dramatic finale to 3 blood-soaked days.
The hashtag had been tweeted 5,044,740 times by 5 pm Friday (2200 GMT), with a peak of 6,300 tweets per minute.
The number still trails far behind the more than 18,136,000 times #Ferguson was tweeted in the aftermath of a fatal shooting of a young black American by a white police officer in the Missouri town – the most tweeted hashtag of 2014. (READ: VIRAL: Social media for Charlie Hebdo)
On Friday, the heavily-armed Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects were cornered in a tiny town northeast of Paris while an ally took terrified shoppers hostage in a Jewish supermarket, where 4 died and 7 were hurt, including 3 police officers.
The Charlie Hebdo gunmen had kept France gripped with fear since they slaughtered 12 people Wednesday, January 7, in the offices of the satirical magazine. (READ: #JeSuisCharlie? Media debates self-censorship of cartoons) – Rappler.com
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