Former US president Barack Obama has the most liked tweet of the year, Twitter say

Former US President Barack Obama can lay claim to having had an impressive year on Twitter

 

The former US President has the most-liked tweet of the year, according to Twitter who released its top timeline statistics for the year: the most-retweeted and most-liked tweets of 2017, and the most frequently cited accounts.

Obama’s tweet topped the list for the most liked for a tweet he sent in the aftermath of a Charlottesville, Virginia white supremacist rally descending into violence.

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion...”, the tweet says.

The tweet has been liked nearly 4.6m times and been retweeted over 1.7m times since Obama sent the tweet on 12 August, 2017. At the time, the tweet also ursurped the position of the most liked tweet of all time.

 

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion…” pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 13, 2017

 

Also landing in the top-three most liked tweets of the year was Mr Obama’s message of support for Senator John McCain, a onetime political rival Mr Obama defeated in the 2008 election, after the Arizona Republican was diagnosed with brain cancer.

“John McCain is an American hero & one of the bravest fighters I’ve ever known. Cancer doesn’t know what it’s up against. Give it hell, John’ the tweet reads.

Two more of Mr Obama’s tweets were among the ten most shared of the year, and both of them came in the twilight of his time in office.

One urged Americans to embrace their ability to effect change, and the other — issued on the day of Mr Trump’s inauguration — said his time in office had been “the honor of my life”.

The current US President, Donald Trump was the person most tweeted about this year.