This is an entry from: LIVE BLOG: Paris Charlie Hebdo chase
#JeSuisCharlie used more than five million times
10 January 2015 02:01 GMT
Twitter users have posted the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag, a sign of solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, more than five million times, Twitter France said on Friday.
The symbolic five-million mark, an unprecedented number in the history of France-related hashtags, was reached after French security forces killed the brothers suspected of the massacre and an ally responsible for a separate, but related, attack.
The hashtag had been tweeted 5,044,740 times by 2200 GMT Friday, with a peak of 6,300 tweets per minute.
The most tweeted hashtag of 2014 - #Ferguson, the US city where a white police officer killed unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown - was shared more than 18,136,000 times.