List of most-liked tweets
This list contains the top 20 tweets with the most likes on the social networking platform Twitter; Twitter does not provide an official list but the news media makes lists.[1][2][3][4] As of July 2020, the most liked tweet has over 4.3 million likes and was tweeted by former U.S. president Barack Obama.[5] Two accounts have more than one of the most-liked tweets in the top 20: South Korean band BTS have ten, and former U.S. president Barack Obama has three.
List
The following table lists the top 20 most-liked tweets on Twitter, the account that tweeted it, the total number of likes rounded to the nearest hundred thousand, and the date it was originally tweeted. Tweets that have an identical number of likes are listed in date order with the most recent tweet ranked highest. The notes include the details surrounding the tweet.
Rank | Tweet | Posted by | Likes (millions) | Date | Context |
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1 | "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." pic |
Barack Obama @BarackObama |
4.3 | August 12, 2017 | [upper-alpha 1] |
2 | Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.[7] | Barack Obama @BarackObama |
4.1 | January 26, 2020 | [upper-alpha 2] |
3 | Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice [9] | Andy Milonakis @andymilonakis |
3.8 | May 30, 2020 | [upper-alpha 3] |
4 | IM OFFICIALLY CANCER FREE !!! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ [11] | Mel @_melaneee |
3.0 | June 30, 2020 | [upper-alpha 4] |
5 | Quarantine day 6. pic |
Jamie @gnuman1979 |
2.9 | March 16, 2020 | [upper-alpha 5] |
6 | You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask[13] | Twitter |
2.9 | July 2, 2020 | [upper-alpha 6] |
7 | What a headline pic |
๐ @1kingmyles |
2.9 | May 28, 2020 | [upper-alpha 7] |
8 | Never Not ๐ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.9 | May 3, 2020 | [upper-alpha 8] |
9 | Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐ช๐ฟ #33644[19] | Kobe Bryant @kobebryant |
2.7 | January 25, 2020 | [upper-alpha 9] |
10 | In every scene, you are my star, @MichelleObama! Happy birthday, baby! pic |
Barack Obama @BarackObama |
2.7 | January 17, 2020 | [upper-alpha 10] |
11 | ๋ฐฉํ ์๋ฏธ ํ์ดํ
pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.6 | July 26, 2020 | |
12 | Army painted me๐ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.6 | May 25, 2020 | |
13 | ์ง์ง์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ ์์์
์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค #JIMIN pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.5 | July 26, 2020 | |
14 | 2 Months Vs. 7 months pic |
Dre D'ussรจ @_ThatGuyFuller |
2.5 | July 8, 2020 | [upper-alpha 11] |
15 | ์ ์์ํด๋ณด์~ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | July 10, 2020 | |
16 | ์ฌ์ง ์ฐ์ผ๋๊น ๋ฐฉํดํ๋ ์ ๊ตญ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ง๋ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | July 2, 2020 | |
17 | ์๋ฏธ ๋๋ถ์ ๊น๋ฐฅ ๋ง์๊ฒ ๋จน๊ณ ๊ฐ์ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | June 21, 2020 | |
18 | ์ด๋ฆฐ์์์ ํจ๊ป ํ ๊ฟFM ๋น๋ถ๊ฐ ์๋
~ #0613FM_0606 pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | June 6, 2020 | |
19 | ์ค๋์ ์ฎ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป! #0613FM_0530 pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | May 30, 2020 | |
20 | Duh๐ pic |
BTS @BTS_twt |
2.4 | June 9, 2019 | [upper-alpha 12] |
See also
Notes
- This tweet was the first of three tweets quoting a passage from Nelson Mandela's autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, in response to the 2017 Charlottesville attack. The accompanying picture, taken in 2011 by former White House photographer Pete Souza, shows Obama visiting a day care center in Bethesda, Maryland.
- This tweet was written after Kobe Bryant's death in a helicopter crash.[8]
- This tweet was written by Andy during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd protests in wake of the launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2 by SpaceX on May 30, 2020.[10]
- Mel tweeted in all caps about beating cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Jamie tweeted a video of a sock puppet eating cars, making light of the quarantine imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Twitter considers implementing the most requested Twitter feature through calling attention for the wearing of face masks to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]
- Photo of headline reading "Two deadly viruses are killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism".
- BTS member Jungkook singing "Never Not" by American singer Lauv.[17] The tweet became the fastest tweet to reach 1 million views in 2020 and it also reached 1 million likes within two hours.[18]
- Kobe Bryant's last tweet before his death in a helicopter crash the following morning. He congratulated LeBron James on surpassing him on the National Basketball Association's all-time scoring list.[20]
- Happy birthday tweet to his wife, Michelle Obama.
- Two images comparing the size of his Goldenoodle puppy at 2 months & 7 months old.
- BTS member Jungkook dancing to "Bad Guy" by American singer Billie Eilish. Initially ranked as the second most retweeted tweet globally of 2019, it became the most retweeted tweet of the year in less than an hour of Twitter announcing its year end list.[32]
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- Barack Obama [@BarackObama] (August 12, 2017). "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." (Tweet). Retrieved January 28, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Barack Obama [@BarackObama] (January 26, 2020). "Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day" (Tweet). Retrieved January 28, 2020 โ via Twitter.
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- Andy Milonakis [@andymilonakis] (May 30, 2020). "Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice" (Tweet). Retrieved May 31, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Hein, Michael (May 31, 2020). "Andy Milonakis Has the Perfect Tweet in Wake of Protests, SpaceX Launch". PopCulture.com. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- Mel [@_melaneee] (June 30, 2020). "IM OFFICIALLY CANCER FREE !!! ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ" (Tweet). Retrieved July 2, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Jamie [@gnuman1979] (March 16, 2020). "Quarantine day 6" (Tweet). Retrieved March 17, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Twitter [@twitter] (July 2, 2020). "You can have an edit button when everyone wars a mask" (Tweet). Retrieved July 3, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Burlacu, Alexandra (December 30, 2016). "Editing Tweets Is The Most Requested Twitter Feature Ever, But Anything Past A Quick Edit Requires Revision History". Tech Times. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
- ๐ [@1kingmyles] (May 28, 2020). "What a headline" (Tweet). Retrieved May 29, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- BTS [@bts_twt] (May 3, 2020). "Never Not ๐" (Tweet). Retrieved May 3, 2020 โ via Twitter.
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- Bryant, Kobe [@kobebryant] (January 25, 2020). "Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐ช๐ฟ #33644" (Tweet). Retrieved January 29, 2020 โ via Twitter.
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- Barack Obama [@BarackObama] (January 17, 2020). "In every scene, you are my star, @MichelleObama! Happy birthday, baby!" (Tweet). Retrieved March 4, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (July 26, 2020). ๋ฐฉํ ์๋ฏธ ํ์ดํ [Bangtan ARMY fighting] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 30, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (May 25, 2020). "ARMY painted me๐" (Tweet). Retrieved May 27, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (July 26, 2020). ์ง์ง์ ์ด์์ต๋๋ ์์์ ์ฌ๋ํฉ๋๋ค #JIMIN [It was JiJinJung (the Vlive) Good night I love you #JIMIN] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved August 2, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- DRE D'USSร [@_ThatGuyFuller] (July 8, 2020). "2 Months Vs. 7 months" (Tweet). Retrieved July 9, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (July 10, 2020). ์ ์์ํด๋ณด์~ [Ok, let's get started~] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (July 2, 2020). ์ฌ์ง ์ฐ์ผ๋๊น ๋ฐฉํดํ๋ ์ ๊ตญ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ทธ๋๋ก ์ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ์์ง๋ [Jungkookie, who tries to bother/get in the way when he sees I'm taking a picture, and Seokjinie, who posts the pictures as they are anyway] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 12, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (Jun 21, 2020). ์๋ฏธ ๋๋ถ์ ๊น๋ฐฅ ๋ง์๊ฒ ๋จน๊ณ ๊ฐ์ [Thanks to ARMY, we're leaving after eating kimbab deliciously] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 2, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (Jun 6, 2020). ์ด๋ฆฐ์์์ ํจ๊ป ํ ๊ฟFM ๋น๋ถ๊ฐ ์๋ ~ #0613FM_0606 [Kkul FM that I did with the little prince, goodbye for now~ #0613FM_0606] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved June 18, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (May 30, 2020). ์ค๋์ ์ฎ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป! #0613FM_0530 [Today together with Jjwimin! #0613FM_0530] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved June 5, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- ๋ฐฉํ์๋ ๋จ [@BTS_twt] (June 9, 2019). "Duh๐" (Tweet). Retrieved June 10, 2020 โ via Twitter.
- Herman, Tamar (December 9, 2019). "BTS Fans Propel Jungkook's 'Bad Guy' Tweet to Become No. 1 of 2019". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2020.