Washington Post Uses #wherewereyou Twitter Hashtag to Commemorate 9/11

In a tasteful display of using social media to commemorate a tragedy, the Washington Post’s #wherewereyou hashtag made its way around the Twitter-verse this weekend to get users to share where they were on September 11th, 2001. The semantics of the tag itself and the poignancy of the event that is still fresh in many American’s memories no doubt contributed to the outpouring of responses originating from the Washington Post’s Twitter page, but Nieman Journalism Lab points out that the very nature of digital media has caused the hashtag to shift in meaning and begin documenting other sentiments as well.

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