  In October 2017, there happened the uprising of an unprecedented online
movement on social media by women across the world who started publicly sharing
their untold stories of being sexually harassed along with the hashtag #MeToo
(or some variants of it). Those stories did not only strike the silence that
had long hid the perpetrators, but also allowed women to discharge some of
their bottled-up grievances, and revealed many important information
surrounding sexual harassment. In this paper, we present our analysis of about
one million such tweets collected between October 15 and October 31, 2017 that
reveals some interesting patterns and attributes of the people, place,
emotions, actions, and reactions related to the tweeted stories. Based on our
analysis, we also advance the discussion on the potential role of online social
media in breaking the silence of women by factoring in the strengths and
limitations of these platforms.
