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#BringBackOurGirls one year later

Sella OnekoApril 14, 2015

Hashtag campaigns tend to fizzle out after only a few days. But #BringBackOurGirls has been near the top of the Twitter charts for 365 days. How did the campaign go viral and stay viral? Star power helped.

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