Obama eclipses Trump in most popular Twitter posts of 2017
by Martin Belam from Technology | The Guardian on (#39W6T)
Twitter's annual list of most retweeted posts features three tweets from Obama, and none from Trump
Twitter has released its annual list of the most popular tweets on the platform, and in a year when so much coverage of the US president, Donald Trump, has been dominated by his Twitter activity, it is his predecessor Barack Obama who dominates.
Obama's tweet quoting Nelson Mandela, stating "no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion ..." had more than 1.7m retweets and was the second most popular tweet of the year. It was tweeted on 13 August after the death of the anti-fascist protester Heather Heyer at Charlottesville.