9 WOW Stats to Frame The Recent Explosion in Hashtag Activism

Hashtag activism is the act of fighting for or supporting a cause that people are advocating through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and other networking websites. This is the kind of activism that does not require any action from the person other than sharing or “liking” a post or “retweeting” tweets on Twitter. The term gets its name from the liberal use of hashtags (#) that are often used to spread the word about a cause over Twitter. Here are 9 WOW stats that will help to frame the recent explosion in hashtag activism.

There have been 2,046 edits made to the Wikipedia entry “Shooting of Michael Brown.” – Medium.com
 The #IceBucketChallenge has raised over $31.5 million in contributions to the group and and its national affiliates since July 29 — compared with less than $50,000 in the same period last year. – Time
A change.org petition to require Ferguson and St. Louis County and City police officers to wear body cameras has over 46,813 signatures - Change.org
 In July, #MH17 had the most tweets in a 24 hour period with 456K tweets. Mentions of Gaza on Twitter took a close second with almost 320K mentions in a 24 hr period. – WSJ
There have been 7,251,618 #ferguson tweets since Michael Brown’s death - Medium.com
The hashtag #SuicidePrevention trended worldwide on Twitter after news broke of Williams’s death. – Washington Post
Over 28 million people have joined the conversation about the ice bucket challenge including posting, commenting or liking a challenge post. - Facebook News Room
There were more than 3.6 million Ferguson-related tweets sent between Aug. 9, the day Brown was killed, and Aug. 17, compared with 2.3 million ice bucket tweets – Digiday.com
A petition on iPetition.com created to call for cease fire in Gaza has over 83,598 supporters. – iPetition.com

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