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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
Facebook and Twitter made this movement go viral. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was to raise awareness and money for ALS. Contestants would dump a bucket of ice over their heads and then pledge to raise awareness or donate, and then would nominate someone else. This went viral so quickly because every Ice Bucket Challenge was to be recorded and then posted, so people were nominated to do it publicly. -
#blacklivesmatter
The main social media outlet used has been twitter, but others have been used as well, such as Facebook and Instagram. It became the third most used hashtag in social media history and has been used over 12 million times. -
#lovewins
The hashtag started being used as a result of the US Supreme Court ruling in June of 2015 that gay marriage in the United States was now legal for all citizens. The hashtag was used on social media outlets in celebration. Mostly twitter, Instagram and Facebook were used. -
Trump v Clinton Presidential Campaign
Facebook, Instagram and twitter were the main social media outlets used to spread news/information about both parties. They each had huge campaigns where they used social media as one of their main tools. It made it easy to spread information around extremely quickly and conveniently. -
#METOO movement
ME TOO movement goes viral, even though it originally started in 2006. The hashtag and movement were created to raise awareness of sexual assault. The main social media outlet used has been twitter. Since the initial tweet that used the hashtag, it has been used on twitter more than 19 million times. That is more than 55,000 uses of the hashtag every day.
