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
1 "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." pic.twitter.com/InZ58zkoAm[6] 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 !!! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญโค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ [11] Mel
@_melaneee		 3.0 June 30, 2020 [upper-alpha 4]
5 Quarantine day 6. pic.twitter.com/er652Oy3Ki[12] Jamie
@gnuman1979		 2.9 March 16, 2020 [upper-alpha 5]
6 You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask[13] Twitter
@twitter		 2.9 July 2, 2020 [upper-alpha 6]
7 What a headline pic.twitter.com/x8GGKL0VMc[15] ๐Ÿ‘‘
@1kingmyles		 2.9 May 28, 2020 [upper-alpha 7]
8 Never Not ๐Ÿ’œ pic.twitter.com/Ag9oUTJvrN[16] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.9 May 3, 2020 [upper-alpha 8]
9 Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฟ #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.twitter.com/hgMBhHasBj[21] Barack Obama
@BarackObama		 2.7 January 17, 2020 [upper-alpha 10]
11 ๋ฐฉํƒ„ ์•„๋ฏธ ํŒŒ์ดํŒ… pic.twitter.com/FnKqomGNae[22] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.6 July 26, 2020
12 Army painted me๐Ÿ˜ pic.twitter.com/iQcyJsL7gb[23] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.6 May 25, 2020
13 ์ง€์ง„์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋” ์ž˜์ž์š”

์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค #JIMIN pic.twitter.com/Q73R3x7P3o[24]

 BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.5 July 26, 2020
14 2 Months Vs. 7 months pic.twitter.com/Udgr277WVO[25] Dre D'ussรจ
@_ThatGuyFuller		 2.5 July 8, 2020 [upper-alpha 11]
15 ์ž ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด์ž~ pic.twitter.com/UX3LAjBf10[26] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 July 10, 2020
16 ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๊ตญ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„์ง€๋‹ˆ pic.twitter.com/gOk8aM1HMc[27] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 July 2, 2020
17 ์•„๋ฏธ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๊น€๋ฐฅ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์š” pic.twitter.com/q1zQez71PM[28] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 June 21, 2020
18 ์–ด๋ฆฐ์™•์ž์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ ๊ฟ€FM ๋‹น๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ๋…•~ #0613FM_0606 pic.twitter.com/GihQOKPk1J[29] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 June 6, 2020
19 ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ฎœ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜! #0613FM_0530 pic.twitter.com/PkhuKX2a4g[30] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 May 30, 2020
20 Duh๐Ÿ˜› pic.twitter.com/3lGmo7GpF6[31] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 June 9, 2019 [upper-alpha 12]

See also

Notes
  1. 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.
  2. This tweet was written after Kobe Bryant's death in a helicopter crash.[8]
  3. 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]
  4. Mel tweeted in all caps about beating cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  5. Jamie tweeted a video of a sock puppet eating cars, making light of the quarantine imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  6. Twitter considers implementing the most requested Twitter feature through calling attention for the wearing of face masks to curb the COVID-19 pandemic.[14]
  7. Photo of headline reading "Two deadly viruses are killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism".
  8. 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]
  9. 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]
  10. Happy birthday tweet to his wife, Michelle Obama.
  11. Two images comparing the size of his Goldenoodle puppy at 2 months & 7 months old.
  12. 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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  5. 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.
  6. 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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  8. Andy Milonakis [@andymilonakis] (May 30, 2020). "Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice" (Tweet). Retrieved May 31, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
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  11. Jamie [@gnuman1979] (March 16, 2020). "Quarantine day 6" (Tweet). Retrieved March 17, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  12. Twitter [@twitter] (July 2, 2020). "You can have an edit button when everyone wars a mask" (Tweet). Retrieved July 3, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
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  14. ๐Ÿ‘‘ [@1kingmyles] (May 28, 2020). "What a headline" (Tweet). Retrieved May 29, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  15. BTS [@bts_twt] (May 3, 2020). "Never Not ๐Ÿ’œ" (Tweet). Retrieved May 3, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
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  18. Bryant, Kobe [@kobebryant] (January 25, 2020). "Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฟ #33644" (Tweet). Retrieved January 29, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  19. Weaver, Aaron (January 26, 2020). "Kobe Bryant's Final Tweet to LeBron Perfectly Sums Up His Own Legacy". CCN. Archived from the original on January 27, 2020. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  20. 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.
  21. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (July 26, 2020). ๋ฐฉํƒ„ ์•„๋ฏธ ํŒŒ์ดํŒ… [Bangtan ARMY fighting] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 30, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  22. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 25, 2020). "ARMY painted me๐Ÿ˜" (Tweet). Retrieved May 27, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  23. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (July 26, 2020). ์ง€์ง„์ •์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋” ์ž˜์ž์š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค #JIMIN [It was JiJinJung (the Vlive) Good night I love you #JIMIN] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved August 2, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  24. DRE D'USSร‰ [@_ThatGuyFuller] (July 8, 2020). "2 Months Vs. 7 months" (Tweet). Retrieved July 9, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  25. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (July 10, 2020). ์ž ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด์ž~ [Ok, let's get started~] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 28, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  26. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (July 2, 2020). ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์ฐ์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ •๊ตญ์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์„์ง€๋‹ˆ [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.
  27. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (Jun 21, 2020). ์•„๋ฏธ ๋•๋ถ„์— ๊น€๋ฐฅ ๋ง›์žˆ๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์š” [Thanks to ARMY, we're leaving after eating kimbab deliciously] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved July 2, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  28. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (Jun 6, 2020). ์–ด๋ฆฐ์™•์ž์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ ๊ฟ€FM ๋‹น๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ๋…•~ #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.
  29. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 30, 2020). ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ฎœ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜! #0613FM_0530 [Today together with Jjwimin! #0613FM_0530] (Tweet) (in Korean). Retrieved June 5, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  30. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (June 9, 2019). "Duh๐Ÿ˜›" (Tweet). Retrieved June 10, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  31. Herman, Tamar (December 9, 2019). "BTS Fans Propel Jungkook's 'Bad Guy' Tweet to Become No. 1 of 2019". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
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