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dixiegrrrrl

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Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:53 PM Mar 2013

Facebook: 2.7 Million People Showed Support for Marriage Equality by Changing Their Profile Pics

"a ton of people changed their pics over to the Human Rights Campaign's equality sign (or some variation thereof) on Tuesday. It's impossible to get a precise number, but Facebook says that 2.7 million more U.S. Facebook users changed their profile picture that day than on the Tuesday before, a good stand-in for a null hypothesis."

map of change at link:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/facebook-27-million-people-showed-their-support-for-marriage-equality-by-changing-their-profile-pictures/274497/?utm_source=pulsenews

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Facebook: 2.7 Million People Showed Support for Marriage Equality by Changing Their Profile Pics (Original Post) dixiegrrrrl Mar 2013 OP
You can't kill an idea lunatica Mar 2013 #1
... OneGrassRoot Mar 2013 #2
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