SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk posted a meme on his Twitter account over the summer that became the most popular tweet of 2023. Her share surpassed Rihanna’s baby photo in the number of likes and retweets. informs Forbes.
The meme is a photo of a man smoking and watching a crowd of people. The caption of the image reads: “People who have Twitter but don’t share anything.” As of July 4, Musk’s tweet had over 1.5 million likes, more than 128,000 retweets, and more than 78 million views. Musk released the meme on June 18 and has since attracted a lot of attention from Twitter users. Many noted that they belong to the category of passive readers of the social network.
Second on Twitter is a photo of Rihanna’s son, RZA Athelston Meyers, which she first showed as part of a photo shoot for Vogue magazine. This post garnered more than 1.3 million likes, 47 million views and more than 86,000 retweets.
The third most liked post on Twitter was the one showing Elon Musk’s dog Floki. In this tweet, Musk jokingly named the dog as Twitter’s new CEO this February. This post received 1.2 million likes, 139 million views, and more than 89,000 retweets.
Former biographer Walter Isaacson compared to Elon Musk with a demon.