--- title: Boko Haram: See #BringBackOurGirls Go Viral On Twitter Map description: A timelapse map of the viral conversation about Nigeria's lost girls canonical: https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/ author: ashley Ross article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-06T19:01:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:14.997Z og:title: Watch the Conversation About #BringBackOurGirls Spread On Twitter og:description: A timelapse map of the viral conversation about Nigeria's lost girls og:url: https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Conversation About #BringBackOurGirls Spread On Twitter twitter:description: A timelapse map of the viral conversation about Nigeria's lost girls twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch the Conversation About #BringBackOurGirls Spread On Twitter by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross May 6, 2014 7:01 PM CUT by [ashley Ross](/author/ashley-ross/) ## ashley Ross May 6, 2014 7:01 PM CUT Nearly 300 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram on April 14, [but it took two weeks for the story to go viral on Twitter.](http://time.com/84414/how-we-failed-the-lost-girls-kidnapped-by-boko-haram/ "undefined") The rest of the world’s media was slow to catch up too. Now that Boko Haram has taken responsibility for abducting the girls from their school with plans to sell them, the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls is spreading like wildfire and the Nigerian government is finally asking for international help to find them. The map below shows how the story finally exploded on Twitter: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/"},"headline":"Watch the Conversation About #BringBackOurGirls Spread On Twitter","datePublished":"2014-05-06T19:01:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:14.997Z","description":"A timelapse map of the viral conversation about Nigeria's lost girls","url":"https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/","keywords":["Living","twitter","Map","Nigeria","Boko Haram","bringbackourgirls"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"ashley Ross","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-ross/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/89775/boko-haram-kidnapping-twitter-bringbackourgirls/","name":"Watch the Conversation About #BringBackOurGirls Spread On Twitter"}}]}] ```