A Saudi campaign for pay increases has become one of the most prolifically tweeted subjects worldwide on social media website Twitter.
The hashtag #salaryisnotenoughforanything – written in Arabic – was tweeted about 1.5m times within 24 hours to Thursday afternoon – an average 7400 per hour, according to Twitter statistics website Statweestics.
It is believed to be the first time an Arab hash tag has been among the most used by the millions of Twitter users internationally.
The campaign calls on King Abdullah to raise the salaries of all Saudi employees and retirees and to boost student payments, lower consumer prices and provide work to the unemployed.
Several celebrities have joined the campaign, leveraging their large number of Twitter followers, to spread the word.
Hashtags are a method for Twitter users to join in an unmoderated, ad-hoc discussion forum on a particular topic and are used to indicate a trend among comments on the site.
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