Twitter Users Respond to Paris Attack with #JeSuisCharlie Hashtag
In the aftermath of the attack on satirical left-wing magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in which two police officers and 10 journalists were killed, Twitter users coined a new hashtag to express their support for the slain journalists: #JeSuisCharlie (Translation: "I am Charlie"). Users have tweeted #JeSuisCharlie more than 91,000 times in the past hour and more than 258,000 times in the past 24 hours.
Any act of violence against journalists & satirists will only serve to strengthen the resolve of both #JeSuisCharlie pic.twitter.com/s4x71zHKuh
— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 7, 2015'Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations' - Orwell #JeSuisCharlie
— Rupert Myers (@RupertMyers) January 7, 2015"Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion" Voltaire #JeSuisCharlie
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) January 7, 2015
"...the art of satire has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity". Salman Rushdie #JeSuisCharlie
— Asad Rahman (@AsadRahman) January 7, 2015
The U.S. Embassy in France also changed its Twitter profile picture to reflect the hashtag.
