#WomenBoycottTwitter movement still garners 170,000+ mentions during the day

Talk around the one day #WomenBoycottTwitter movement saw it mentioned nearly 1750,000 times during the Friday the action took place. The hashtag was created to encourage users to silence themselves in support of prominent and temporarily banned actress and activist, Rose McGowan in order to demonstrate that the platform had issues it could no longer ignore.
According to exclusive data provided by Meltwater to The Drum, the hashtag for the movement was mentioned 172,667 during research that took