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Why do Twitter and Instagram users make their blue profiles?
MOhammed Hashim Mattar was only 26 when he was shot dead by Sudanese security services last week.
Now, his favorite shade of indigo blue has become a symbol of the country's beleaguered pro-democracy uprising.
Thousands of social media users have changed their Instagram and Twitter avatars into the same color, using the #blueforsudan hashtags.
"It started with friends and family," said Amal Amir, an Anglo-Sudanese social media user who took part in the protests. "It's his favorite color and it's his posting picture on all his social media accounts. Then it started to be for all the martyrs. "
What happened?
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