Obama breaks record with tweet


Ex president Barack Obama's tweet quoting Nelson Mandela have beennliked more than 3million times on twitter, breaking previously held records, according to the microblogging site.

Posted on Sunday, the tweet reached the milestone on Thursday, breaking the previous record held by singer Ariana Grande after a bombing at one of her concerts in the English city of Manchester.

"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin or his background or his religion..." Obama wrote, quoting the late South African president.

A picture attached to the post shows Obama playing with toddlers of different racial backgrounds. The tweet, Obama's first in weeks, came in the context of deadly white supremacist violence in the town of Charlottesville, Virginia.



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