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#BringBackOurGirls illustrates the power of a hashtag
About 250 schoolgirls were kidnapped in Nigeria three and a half weeks ago. Yet, much of the world didn't hear about it until this week. While there's ample speculation as to why it took so long for the news to get out, it is clear that one hashtag helped bring the world's attention to the incident:#BringBackOurGirls. As of this writing, the hashtag has been tweeted on Twitter more than 1.7 million times, posted on Instagram nearly 235,000 times, and countlessly shared on Facebook. Politicians, human rights activists, and celebrities -- including First LadyMichelle Obama, Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, and actor Angelina Jolie -- have either shared the hashtag on social media or posted photos of themselves holding a piece of paper saying #BringBackOurGirls. So, how did it all start? It began with one Nigerian man named Ibrahim M. Abdullahi. On April 23, as he watched the former Nigerian Minister of Education Obiageli Ezekwesili give a speech calling on the government to "bring back our daughters," hetweeted out, "Yes #BringBackOurDaughters #BringBackOurGirls," according to ITV News.Yes #BringBackOurDaughters #BringBackOurGirls declared by @obyezeks and all people at Port Harcourt World Book Capital 2014.-- Ibrahim M. Abdullahi (@Abu_Aaid) April 23, 2014 Ezekwesili retweeted Abdullahi's tweet to her tens of thousands of followers and the rest is history. Related storiesNonprofit's 'Kony 2012' viral video stirs emotion, controversyYouTube reveals 2013's top 10 viral videos, times have changedFacebook hashtags said to have zero viral impact Abdullahi told ITV News that before the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag went viral, the government was slow to take action. He credits the international community for helping pressure the government to begin work on a rescue. "It is the world's outcry that forced the Nigerian government to stand up to its obligations and start working towards finding the girls," Abdullahi told ITV News. The kidnapping occurred on April 14 when hundreds of girls -- 276 by some counts -- were abducted from their school in rural northeastern Nigeria. According toThe New York Times, terrorist group Boko Haram has reportedly claimed responsibility for the kidnappings and has threatened to sell the girls into slavery. As of this writing, none of the girls have been rescued. CNET contacted Twitter for more details on how the #BringBackOurGirls hashtag went viral. We'll update the story when we get more information.#f***youwashington: Hashtag of faith or despair?
Yesterday, in a post on his blog and Google+ (how could it be anywhere else?) Jarvis explained that, for him, the greatest triumph was not that the hashtag attained some virality, but that it offered hope for the future of the hashtag. The hashtag, he said, is hopeful because it cannot be controlled."A hashtag is open and profoundly democratic," he said. "People gather around a hashtag. They salute it and spread it or ignore it and let it wither. They imbue it with their own meaning. The creator quickly and inevitably loses control of it." It seems to have taken a little loss of control on Jarvis' part to create the hashtag. He admitted he had been fueled by a little pinot. It was a fuel that drove around 84,000 tweets, although, mysteriously, the hashtag reportedly never showed up in Twitter's trending list. (Oddly, this hasn't yet lead to a #f***youtwitter hashtag.)Yet, as Jarvis himself admits, #f***youwashington seems largely to have run out of gas. But not before sad, small people who happen to live in Washington have been able to express their sheer horror at being lumped in with the lumpenbourgeoisie of the politicians.Those who, perhaps, regularly waft onto Twitter to express themselves have now mutated their anger to a new hashtag: #taxtherich.While Jarvis clings onto the notion that, in time, more people will be free to express themselves around the hashtags of the day, perhaps the truth of the human condition lies in other hashtags-- the ones that are trending on Twitter.As of yesterday evening, Twitterers seemed to care about #thingswelearnedontwitter (sample: that celebrities are like every people).Next comes #Beltran, the understandably important musings of those excited by the idea that the Mets' Carlos Beltran will come to the civilization represented by the San Francisco Giants. Then we have #rappernames (sample: "Lil Greasy, all you haters just slide off me.")Many will have sympathy with Jarvis' belief that somehow, somewhere, the voice of the people will be heard. But there is a reason why politicians behave in the sleazy, self-centered, pocket-lining, grubby, duplicitous way that they do. (Could there be a more appropriate symbol for the true nature of politicians than one Anthony Weiner Twitpic?)It's a reason that Twitter hashtags do, generally, express very clearly: We the people care far more about the things that don't matter than the things that do.