Obama Makes History With Twitter Message

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Former President Barack Obama has the gift of the word.

The former president of the United States demonstrated this with the message he published on his Twitter account after what happened in the Charlottesville demonstration, which claimed the lives of three people.

This time, Obama did not use his words. He preferred to quote another political leader and human rights activist: the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. The sentences were direct and forceful. A message that we could classify as hopeful before the intolerance of some groups over others, simply because of their skin color or origin.

"No one is born hating another person because of their skin color, their origin or their religion …" Obama wrote in the first of the tweets that was published on Saturday, August 12. It should be noted that due to the design of the social network there are a minimum number of characters that can be written per message; space limitation.

"Hate is something that people learn, and if they learn to hate, they can be taught to love … Because love appears more natural in the human heart than the opposite" - Nelson Mandela.

This quote that the president used to send a message on Twitter broke record. The tweet became the one with the most "likes" in history on Tuesday, confirmed by Twitter.

Previously, the record was held by Ariana Grande with a tweet about the massacre that occurred in Manchester, after her concert in May. With this conciliatory message, former President Obama becomes the leading figure on Twitter. So, it is worth asking if Donald Trump, who has always used this social network as his best instrument, was dethroned from Twitter.