#YesAllWomen: How a Twitter hashtag dies

Published May 27, 2014 5:00am ET



This is how a Twitter hashtag dies.

The #YesAllWomen hashtag appeared over the weekend after Friday’s killing spree in Santa Barbara, Calif. Police blamed the killings on 22-year-old Elliot Rodger, a Santa Barbara City College student who had posted disturbing videos to YouTube, including one a day before the shooting that said he intended to kill women — a response to his romantic shortcomings.

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