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 June 2020, the most liked tweets has over 4.3 million likes and was tweeted by former U.S. president Barack Obama.[5]

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 ordered with the newest tweet ranked highest. The notes include the details surrounding the tweet.

Two accounts have more than one of the most-liked tweets in the top 20: South Korean band BTS have nine, and former U.S. president Barack Obama has three.

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 Quarantine day 6. pic.twitter.com/er652Oy3Ki[11] Jamie
@gnuman1979		 3.0 March 16, 2020 [upper-alpha 4]
5 What a headline pic.twitter.com/x8GGKL0VMc[12] ๐Ÿ‘‘
@1kingmyles		 2.9 May 28, 2020 [upper-alpha 5]
6 Never Not ๐Ÿ’œ pic.twitter.com/Ag9oUTJvrN[13] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.8 May 3, 2020 [upper-alpha 6]
7 Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฟ #33644[15] Kobe Bryant
@kobebryant		 2.7 January 25, 2020 [upper-alpha 7]
8 In every scene, you are my star, @MichelleObama! Happy birthday, baby! pic.twitter.com/hgMBhHasBj[17] Barack Obama
@BarackObama		 2.7 January 17, 2020 [upper-alpha 8]
9 Army painted me๐Ÿ˜ pic.twitter.com/iQcyJsL7gb[18] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.5 May 25, 2020
10 Duh๐Ÿ˜› pic.twitter.com/3lGmo7GpF6[19] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.4 June 9, 2019 [upper-alpha 9]
11 broken.
from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words.[21]		 Ariana Grande
@ArianaGrande		 2.4 May 22, 2017 [upper-alpha 10]
12 I lost my aunt today..... sheโ€™s not dead, just racist.[23] TJ๐Ÿ‘ฝ
@trevormeyer_		 2.3 June 3, 2020
13 ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ฎœ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜! #0613FM_0530 pic.twitter.com/PkhuKX2a4g[24] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.3 May 30, 2020
14 his father left when he was 12, now he has a YT channel called "Dad, how do I?" to help kids who're growing up without dads. teaching them basic tasks that you'd usually ask your dad for help on. this is the purest thing ๐Ÿ˜ญ pic.twitter.com/JMKXM541xd[25] Mother Moon
@earthygissel		 2.3 May 19, 2020
15 ์–ด๋ฒ„์ด๋‚  ์นด๋„ค์ด์…˜์€ ์—ญ์‹œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚ ์— ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ! pic.twitter.com/rbWKmL3e9H[26] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.3 May 5, 2020
16 ๐Ÿ’œ ๐ŸคARMY ๋ณด๊ณ ์‹ถ์–ด์š”๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’œpic.twitter.com/7zjGXFnn1R[27] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.2 June 7, 2020
17 ์–ด๋ฆฐ์™•์ž์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ํ•œ ๊ฟ€FM ๋‹น๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์•ˆ๋…•~ #0613FM_0606 pic.twitter.com/GihQOKPk1J[28] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.2 June 6, 2020
18 After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? 'When the looting starts the shooting starts'??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump[29] Taylor Swift
@taylorswift13		 2.2 May 29, 2020 [upper-alpha 11]
19 ํ‰ํ„ฐ ์ฒซ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ ๋•Œ #DAECHWITA #AGUST_D_2 pic.twitter.com/1y7ERuz53z[31] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.2 May 27, 2020
20 ์† ๋ง‰๋‚ด ํ˜ธ๋น„์˜ ์ปคํ”ผ์ฐจ ์••๋„์  ๊ฐ์‚ฌ! pic.twitter.com/Sh2h9tvcYz[32] BTS
@BTS_twt		 2.2 May 22, 2020

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. Jamie tweeted a video of a sock puppet eating cars, making light of the quarantine imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  5. Photo of headline reading "Two deadly viruses are killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism".
  6. BTS member Jungkook singing "Never Not" by American singer Lauv.[14]
  7. 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.[16]
  8. Happy birthday tweet to his wife, Michelle Obama.
  9. 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.[20]
  10. American singer Ariana Grande tweeted this several hours after her performance at Manchester Arena on May 22, 2017. A suicide bombing had occurred after the end of the concert in the foyer of the arena; the explosion killed 23 people (including the attacker) and injured 250 more.[22]
  11. This tweet was written by the American singer in response to President Donald Trump for a tweet glorifying violence during the George Floyd protests.[30]

References
  1. Crook, Jordan (August 16, 2017). "The most-liked tweet in history says a lot about how the world is doing". TechCrunch. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  2. Becket, Adam (August 16, 2017). "The 10 most liked tweets of all time are dominated by Obama". Business Insider. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  3. Nuรฑez, Michael. "Kobe Bryant's Death Prompts More Facebook, Twitter Discussion Than Trump's Impeachment". Forbes.
  4. Schwarz, Hunter (August 16, 2017). "Obama's Charlottesville tweet is most liked in Twitter history". CNN. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  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) 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) โ€“ via Twitter.
  7. Chavez, Chris (January 26, 2020). "President Barack Obama Shares Heartfelt Tribute Remembering Kobe Bryant". Sports Illustrated.
  8. Andy Milonakis [@andymilonakis] (May 30, 2020). "Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  9. Hein, Michael (May 31, 2020). "Andy Milonakis Has the Perfect Tweet in Wake of Protests, SpaceX Launch". popculture.com.
  10. Jamie [@gnuman1979] (March 16, 2020). "Quarantine day 6" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  11. ๐Ÿ‘‘ [@1kingmyles] (May 28, 2020). "What a headline" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  12. BTS [@bts_twt] (May 3, 2020). "Never Not ๐Ÿ’œ" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  13. Iasimone, Ashley (May 2, 2020). "BTS' Jungkook Covers Lauv's 'Never Not': Watch". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  14. Bryant, Kobe [@kobebryant] (January 25, 2020). "Continuing to move the game forward @KingJames. Much respect my brother ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฟ #33644" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  15. Weaver, Aaron (January 26, 2020). "Kobe Bryant's Final Tweet to LeBron Perfectly Sums Up His Own Legacy". CNN.
  16. Barack Obama [@BarackObama] (January 17, 2020). "In every scene, you are my star, @MichelleObama! Happy birthday, baby!" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  17. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 25, 2020). "Army painted me๐Ÿ˜" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  18. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (June 9, 2019). "Duh๐Ÿ˜›" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  19. Herman, Tamar (December 9, 2019). "BTS Fans Propel Jungkook's 'Bad Guy' Tweet to Become No. 1 of 2019". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
  20. Ariana Grande [@ArianaGrande] (May 22, 2017). "broken. from the bottom of my heart, i am so so sorry. i don't have words" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  21. "Ariana Grande says she feels 'broken' after Manchester concert attack". BBC News. May 23, 2017. Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved May 23, 2017.
  22. TJ๐Ÿ‘ฝ [@trevormeyer_] (June 3, 2020). "I lost my aunt today..... she's not dead, just racist" (Tweet). Retrieved June 4, 2020 โ€“ via Twitter.
  23. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 30, 2020). ์˜ค๋Š˜์€ ์ฎœ๋ฏผ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜! #0613FM_0530 [Today with Jjwimin! #0613FM_0530] (Tweet) (in Korean) โ€“ via Twitter.
  24. Mother Moon [@earthygissel] (May 19, 2020). "his father left when he was 12, now he has a YT channel called "Dad, how do I?" to help kids who're growing up without dads. teaching them basic tasks that you'd usually ask your dad for help on. this is the purest thing ๐Ÿ˜ญ" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  25. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 5, 2020). ์–ด๋ฒ„์ด๋‚  ์นด๋„ค์ด์…˜์€ ์—ญ์‹œ ์–ด๋ฆฐ์ด๋‚ ์— ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด์•ผ! [Of course, carnations for Parents' Day should be made on Children's Day!] (Tweet) (in Korean) โ€“ via Twitter.
  26. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (June 7, 2020). ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿค ARMY ๋ณด๊ณ ์‹ถ์–ด์š”๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’œ [๐Ÿ’œ ๐ŸคARMY Miss you๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ’œ] (Tweet) (in Korean) โ€“ via Twitter.
  27. ๋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) โ€“ via Twitter.
  28. Taylor Swift [@taylorswift13] (May 29, 2020). "After stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism your entire presidency, you have the nerve to feign moral superiority before threatening violence? 'When the looting starts the shooting starts'??? We will vote you out in November. @realdonaldtrump" (Tweet) โ€“ via Twitter.
  29. "Taylor Swift accuses Trump of 'stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism'". The Guardian. May 29, 2020.
  30. ๋ฐฉํƒ„์†Œ๋…„๋‹จ [@BTS_twt] (May 27, 2020). ํ‰ํ„ฐ ์ฒซ ์‹œ๋ฎฌ ๋•Œ #DAECHWITA #AGUST_D_2 [From when we first simulated/tried out the scar #DAECHWITA #AGUST_D_2] (Tweet) (in Korean) โ€“ via Twitter.
  31. BTS [@bts_twt] (May 22, 2020). ์† ๋ง‰๋‚ด ํ˜ธ๋น„์˜ ์ปคํ”ผ์ฐจ ์••๋„์  ๊ฐ์‚ฌ! [Immense gratitude to Sope's youngest Hobi for this coffee truck!] (Tweet) (in Korean) โ€“ via Twitter.
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