In the wake of domestic abuse revelations involving former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice and wife Janay Palmer, domestic violence victims have taken to Twitter creating #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft.

Prior to seeing video footage, the Baltimore Ravens apologized for Rice. However, since seeing video footage of Rice knocking out his then fiancé, Rice has been cut from the team.

The incident has brought up domestic violence issues, and has encouraged victims to speak up using Twitter.

Domestic violence abuse victims are tweeting why they stayed and why they left abusive relationships.

In 140 characters or less, powerful statements are made explaining why victims felt they couldn't leave using the hashtag #WhyIStayed, or how they were able to leave using the hashtag #WhyILeft.

#whyistayed we were only married a month when he hit me the first time. I had a huge wedding. I thought: "what would ppl say if I leave now" — The Lady Formerly Known as.... (@TattooedHijabi) September 9, 2014

#whyistayed Because when he said he was sorry, I trusted that meant it wouldn't happen again. Again. Again. Again. Again. — Omgcornflakes (@omgcornflakes) September 9, 2014

1 of the reasons #whyistayed he hadn't hit me yet. #whyileft I realized it didn't have to be physical to be abuse. http://t.co/miaL2ufTzv — Erika (@emakesthings) September 9, 2014

In the midst of Twitter users spilling their raw emotions, DiGiorno Pizza "clearly didn't look into it's context before tweeting..." AdWeek writes. They included a picture of the tweet.

The tweet appears to have been deleted, and DiGiorno Pizza has since sent an apology tweet.