{"id":25971,"date":"2012-11-07T09:23:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T07:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:05:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T15:05:41","slug":"obama-twitters-retweet-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/25971\/obama-twitters-retweet-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: Twitter&#8217;s retweet president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><a title=\"Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1708-Barack-Obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s celebratory tweet after winning the presidential race has rocketed to the number one most-retweeted message ever.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s official <a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1711-Twitter\">Twitter<\/a> account posted a photo of the US president hugging his wife, along with the message of \u201cFour more years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tweet was retweeted over 430,000 times, and favourited over 140,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>Obama\u2019s tweet has overtaken the retweet record held previously by Justin Bieber, whose tweet about the passing of a young fan who died of brain cancer was retweeted over 223,000 times.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama was significantly active on social media, particularly on Twitter and <a title=\"Reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/5905-Reddit\">Reddit<\/a>, throughout his campaign.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64076\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?attachment_id=64076\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64076\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64076\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64076\" title=\"Barack Obama Tweet\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Barack-Obama-Tweet.jpg\" alt=\"Barack Obama Tweet\" 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