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Obama trumps Trump in Twitter Top 10 of 2017

  (Agence France-Presse)
San Franscisco, United States
Wed, December 6, 2017

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 Obama trumps Trump in Twitter Top 10 of 2017 This file photo taken on Oct. 6, 2017 shows Former United States' President Barack Obama, delivering a speech during the Green Economy Summit 2017 in Cordoba province some 740 kilometres Northwestern Buenos Aires. Barack Obama will campaign for Ralph Northam on October 19, 2017 a Virginia Democrat governor candidate. (Agence France -Presse/Pablo Gasparini)

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S President Donald Trump is perhaps the world's most famous Twitter user, but the most popular post of 2017 was from... Barack Obama.

Three tweets by the former US leader made it onto Twitter's Top 10 list of retweeted messages for this year but there were none from Trump despite his prolific use of the platform.

Trump was, however, the elected leader most tweeted about, Twitter said.

A tweet racking up the most "likes," about 4.6 million as of Tuesday, came from Obama's personal Twitter account on the day of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The tweet showed a photo of a racially diverse group of children looking out a window at Obama as he smiled back, and bore a quote from Nelson Mandela.

The same Twitter post was the second most re-tweeted of the year, behind a tweet from a teenager trying to win a year's supply of chicken nuggets from fast food chain Wendy's.

 

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