This list contains the top 8 tweets with the most likes on the Twitter. Twitter does not provide a full official list, but news and mainstream media often cover the topic.
8. BTS member Jungkook posted a selfie featuring his newly-dyed blond hair. The tweet surpassed 1 million likes in 58 minutes. According to Twitter’s year-end review, it was the second most-liked tweet of 2021.
Posted On January 24, 2021
7. Twitter tweeted this on a day when Facebook, Inc.-owned social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, suffered a major, worldwide outage. According to Twitter’s year-end review, it was the third most-liked tweet of 2021.
Posted On October 4, 2021
6. Barack Obama wrote this tweet in tribute to American basketball player Kobe Bryant after news of his and his daughter Gianna’s deaths in a helicopter crash surface. According to Twitter’s year-end review, it was the second most-liked tweet of 2020.
Posted On January 26, 2020
5. President-elect Joe Biden posted this tweet on the day of his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States. According to Twitter’s year-end review, it was the most-liked tweet of 2021.
Posted On January 20, 2021
4. Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg tweeted this in response to British-American internet personality Andrew Tate, who posted a tweet taunting her with the emissions of his car collection.
Posted On December 28, 2022
3. This tweet was the first of three, by former US President Barack Obama, 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. Four days later, Twitter publicly confirmed that it had become the most-liked tweet on the platform ever, with over 3.3 million likes at the time of announcement. The tweet surpassed previous record holder Ariana Grande’s Manchester tweet on August 15, 2017, when it reached 2.7 million likes three days after being posted.
Posted On August 12, 2017
2. Following his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter a few days prior to the date of this tweet, Elon Musk jokingly announced that he would also purchase Coca-Cola in order to restore the cocaine; the drink’s original recipe contained coca leaf extract, from which the drug is derived.
Posted On April 27, 2022
1. Family of Chadwick Boseman
@chadwickboseman Posted Tweet announcing the death of American actor Chadwick Boseman. Boseman died after complications with colon cancer, which he had been diagnosed with four years prior; the diagnosis was only made public after his death. It became the most-liked tweet in the history of Twitter within 24 hours of its being posted, and was the most-liked tweet of 2020.
Posted On August 28, 2020
