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The most popular tweet of all time

Four more years. Half-a-million retweets.

IT’S UP TO half-a-million retweets and counting AND it’s taken the crown off Justin Bieber.

Barack Obama’s victory tweet, accompanied by a photo of him hugging his wife Michelle, has garnered a further 5,000 retweets since this screengrab was taken:

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Emer McLysaght

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The most popular tweet of all time

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