Former US President Barack Obama. Photo / AP file
Former US President Barack Obama has broken the record with the most-liked tweet in Twitter's history.
The milestone came with his post quoting former South African President Nelson Mandela in response to the deadly violence in Charlottesville over the weekend.
Obama's August 12 tweet was posted after a rally of
white nationalists and neo- Nazis resulted in the death of a protester.
The post set the record with more than 2.73 million likes today, according to Twitter.
Obama quoted Mandela, the South African political and anti-apartheid resistance leader, in a series of three tweets.
