09/05/2014
Thousands sound social media alarm on Nigerian schoolgirls
Celebrities and politicians join campaigns to free victims of Boko Haram kidnappers Social media sites have exploded with urgent appeals to #bringbackourgirls, ramping up global awareness of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists 24 days earlier. The hashtag appeared 412,000 times on Twitter on Thursday alone, more than any other day since the April 14 mass abduction, keeping the topic firmly on Twitter's trending list throughout the day. Our prayers are with the missing Nigerian girls and their families. It's time to #BringBackOurGirls, wrote US first lady Michelle Obama under a picture...
