Me Too Twitter Trend

Minutes after Oprah Winfrey competed her speech, #OprahFor President started trending on Twitter

It the most-searched word on Merriam-Webster's website and lookups for its definition increased by 70 percent.

Celebrities and everyday people continued flooding social media with personal accounts of sexual assault and harassment Monday, responding to calls to break the culture of silence around such abuse.

"If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet," Alyssa Milano wrote on Twitter and soon '#MeToo' became the top trending topic

Women - and men - who have been sexually assaulted or harassed are tweeting two powerful words - "Me too" - in an attempt to show how widespread the abuse really is. On Sunday, American actor Alyssa Milano tweeted a short message urging survivors to tweet 'Me Too' to highlight the "magnitude of the problem."

Minutes after Oprah Winfrey competed her speech, #OprahFor President started trending on Twitter

It the most-searched word on Merriam-Webster's website and lookups for its definition increased by 70 percent.

Celebrities and everyday people continued flooding social media with personal accounts of sexual assault and harassment Monday, responding to calls to break the culture of silence around such abuse.

"If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet," Alyssa Milano wrote on Twitter and soon '#MeToo' became the top trending topic

Women - and men - who have been sexually assaulted or harassed are tweeting two powerful words - "Me too" - in an attempt to show how widespread the abuse really is. On Sunday, American actor Alyssa Milano tweeted a short message urging survivors to tweet 'Me Too' to highlight the "magnitude of the problem."