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Obama Beats Justin Bieber for Most Popular Tweet of All Time
- By Mark Micheli
- November 7, 2012
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Bieber Fever has been swept into the dustbin of history.
In just 22 minutes, President Obama's Nov. 6 re-election tweet trounced pop star Justin Bieber's former record for most shared tweet of all time. Obama's tweet now holds the record, by a wide margin, for most retweeted tweet. As of this morning, the post has been shared more than 645,000 times--beating Bieber's old record of more than 200,000.
See Obama's tweet below:
Political and government Twitter accounts continue to prove themselves as a valuable tool for connecting with citizens. See our profile of the women behind NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover's tweets and how they came close to "Bieber level" when announcing the rover's successful landing last August.
Mark Micheli is the Special Projects Editor of Government Executive, editor of Excellence in Government Online and former Program Manager of the Government Business Council. Prior to his current roles, he worked on national security and emergency management issues with the US Treasury Department. He’s worked as a political research analyst, a correspondent for the Des Moines Register at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs. He studied at Drake University where he has degrees in Magazine Journalism, Political Science and History.
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