Barack Obama has been re-elected as President of the United
States, and it looks like he's taken another prize as well — he can now
lay claim to the most popular tweet of all time. The tweet, which simply
states "Four more years" alongside a photo of Obama embracing his wife
Michelle, has been retweeted over 320,000 times and counting. Buzzfeed points out that this beat the previous record — said to have been set by Justin Bieber — after just 22 minutes, and the gap has since risen to more than 100,000.
Twitter's Government feed has also confirmed
that this year's Election Day was the "most tweeted about event in US
political history," with over 20 million tweets. The service saw a rate
of 327,000 tweets per minute following news of Obama's re-election.
Update: Twitter has posted some new figures
from the election. At the time they were published, Obama's tweet was
up to 455,000 retweets, and the total number of Election Day tweets has
risen to 31 million. Twitter's blog post also provides a roundup of
tweets from notable US politicians and congratulations to Obama from
international leaders.
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012
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