8:21PM OCT 15 2017

Within one day the post received more than 38,000 comments, 13,000 retweets and 27,000 likes.

n the last 24 hours, a spokesperson from Twitter confirmed, the hashtag had been tweeted nearly half a million times.

The tweet was posted in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual assault allegations which included sexual assault testimonies from other Hollywood actresses earlier in the month.

The goal of #MeToo, as Milano’s friend told her, was simply to give people a sense of “the magnitude of the problem.” The power of #MeToo, though, is that it takes something that women had long kept quiet about and transforms it into a movement. t’s simply an attempt to get people to understand the prevalence of sexual harassment and assault in society. 

Google trends for #metoo

#metoo still being used today on twitter