Twitter's 2017 list of most likes and retweets: Obama's tweets land multiple spots
President Donald Trump, who has been very vocal on twitter and whose posts have become a key part of his communication strategy, couldn�t make it to the top 10 most retweeted or liked tweets this year. Photo: Barack Obama official Twitter
(Web Desk) – Social media platform has become an important tool for anyone to share their views, one of the most used micro-blogging medium Twitter is used not just by ordinary people but it is used by famous celebrities, important people and has even started movements that has changed modern times.
As 2017 comes to an end, Twitter released a list of most “liked” and “retweeted” tweets of this year. According to the BBC President Donald Trump, who has been very vocal on twitter and whose posts have become a key part of his communication strategy, couldn’t made it to the top 10 most retweeted or liked tweets this year.
Although his predecessor former President Barack Obama made it to the list with three of the most shared tweets of 2017.
Trump was, however, the most tweeted-about world leader, reported BBC.
Twitter revealed that the most shared tweet of the year 2017 was from a 17-year-old Nevada’s resident who asked a fast food chain ‘Wendy’s’, “How many retweets he would need to get a year’s worth of free chicken nuggets?”
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS pic.twitter.com/4SrfHmEMo3
— Carter Wilkerson (@carterjwm) April 6, 2017
The U.S. fast food chain Wendy’s tweeted back that he would need to get 18 million.
So far Carter Wilkerson’s tweet was retweeted to this date, over three million times.
On the list of ‘most-liked tweet’ of this year was from the former president Obama.
Obama tweeted a photo of himself talking to multi-racial children through a window, after the white supremacist protest in Virginia, with a quote from Nelson Mandela. His tweet received more than four million likes and was retweeted over a million times, making it the second more retweeted post worldwide.
"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
On the same day, August 12 – President Trump wrote on his twitter, “many sides” were at fault for the “hatred, bigotry and violence” that occurred in Charlottesville.
Another tweet tweeted by the former president, was an appeal to the Americans to “believe in [their] ability to create change” was the fifth- most shared tweet globally.
Thank you for everything. My last ask is the same as my first. I m asking you to believe—not in my ability to create change, but in yours.
— President Obama (@POTUS44) January 11, 2017
Ariana Grande’s tweet after the Manchester Arena bombing in May was the fourth most retweeted globally.
broken.
— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) May 23, 2017
from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don t have words.
Grande’s post on the social media was the second most-liked tweet.
Despite Trump’s tweets were most talked about in the U.S. and worldwide, none of his tweets made it into this year’s most retweeted or most-shared lists this year.
