List of most-liked tweets
This list contains the top 30 tweets with the most likes on the social networking platform Twitter. Though Twitter does not provide a full official list, news and mainstream media often cover the topic.[1][2][3][4] As of December 2021, the most-liked tweet has over 7 million likes and was tweeted from the account of American actor Chadwick Boseman, announcing his death from cancer.[5] Three accounts have more than one of the most-liked tweets in the top 30: South Korean band BTS has twenty-one, while former U.S. president Barack Obama and U.S. president Joe Biden each have two.
List[]
The following table lists the top 30 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 posted | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV... ][6] | Family of Chadwick Boseman @chadwickboseman |
7.2 | August 28, 2020 | [A] |
| 2 | "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."[9] | Barack Obama @BarackObama |
4.1 | August 12, 2017 | [B] |
| 3 | It's a new day in America.[12] | Joe Biden @JoeBiden |
4.0 | January 20, 2021 | [C] |
| 4 | 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.[15] | Barack Obama @BarackObama |
3.8 | January 26, 2020 | [D] |
| 5 | Congratulations to the Astronauts that left Earth today. Good choice[18] | Andy Milonakis @andymilonakis |
3.5 | May 30, 2020 | [E] |
| 6 | hello literally everyone[20] | Twitter |
3.3 | October 4, 2021 | [F] |
| 7 |
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