On Saturday morning, the death of Chadwick Boseman was announced via the actor’s social media. The message his family posted on Twitter already had 6.3 million likes on Sunday morning. That is an immediate record, Twitter itself said.
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‘An ode to the king. Most likes on a tweet ever ‘, wrote Twitter in the post of the death of Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman. The message was liked more than 6.3 million times and retweeted a further 2.1 million times in less than 24 hours.
The old record had been held by Barack Obama since 2017. He then tweeted a photo of himself with children of various origins. ‘No one is born with hatred towards someone else because of his skin color, his background or his religion,’ he said. The tweet ‘only’ got 4.3 million likes and was retweeted 1.6 million times.
Dozens of fans also gathered in Los Angeles on Saturday night to honor the actor. There was also a minute of silence for the NBA games. Boseman died of colon cancer.
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