When armed attackers stormed the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris this week killing 12 people, there was an immediate outpouring of grief and outrage. Within hours of the attack, the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie ("I am Charlie" in French) began appearing on Twitter

By Friday, people claimed it had become Twitter’s most popular hashtag ever.

It’s not

The hashtag #JeSuisCharlie has generated millions of tweets with Twitter France reporting more than 5 million.

5M Tweets de solidarité avec #JeSuisCharlie publiés dans le monde #Fierté

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