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The Most Liked and Retweeted Photo in History

most liked and retweeted photo ever barack obama hugging wife michelle The Most Liked and Retweeted Photo in History

 

On November 6, 2012 at precisely 11:15pm ET on Facebook and 11:16pm ET on Twitter, Barack Obama, the President of the United States of America, posted the photo above with the caption, “Four more years.”

As of November 10, 2012 @ 1:30pm ET, the Facebook photo has 4,306,739 ‘Likes’, 577,941 shares and 207,747 comments; making it the most ‘Liked’ photo ever on Facebook [Source]. The Facebook page for Barack Obama has over 33.1 million ‘Likes’.

In comparison, the tweet on Twitter has 809,193 retweets and 292,755 ‘favorites’, making it the most retweeted photo/message in Twitter history [Source]. @BarackOBama has over 23 million followers.

 

 

The social media statistics for the entire election day/night are equally staggering. According to Facebook + Journalists, there were 71.7 million election-related posts and comments in the United States alone on election day (Nov. 6, 2012). The top 20 terms by overall mention count for election day were:

1. Obama
2. Vote / Voted
3. Romney
4. Election
5. President
6. Country
7. Win / Wins
8. Line
9. Four More Years / 4 More Years
10. Ohio
11. Election Day
12. Results
13. Polls
14. Ballots
15. Proud
16. Close
17. Florida
18. Electoral
19. Lost
20. Colorado

[Source]

 

 

 

On Twitter, there were an estimated 31 million election-related tweets, hitting a peak of 327,452 tweets per minute (TPM). Other notable TPM moments included:

– 327,452 TPM – 11:19pm ET – Networks call Obama’s reelection
– 85,273 TPM – 11:12pm ET – IA presidential race called
– 69,031 TPM – 9:33pm ET – PA and WI presidential races called
– 65,106 TPM – 8:03pm ET – Polls close in various states; AP calls races for IL, CT, ME, DC, DE, RI, MD, MA

[Source]

 

It’s nice that the record-breaking photo was a celebratory moment and not a tragic or disaster-related image. However, records were meant to be broken, and as both networks continue to grow, it’s inevitable that another photo will replace this one as the most ‘Liked’ and/or ‘Retweeted’ photo of all time. Any thoughts what it will be?

 

 

 

 

 

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