1. Fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram
Rupert Grint surpassed Sir David Attenborough’s record for the fastest time to reach one million followers on Instagram, amassing the huge following in just four hours and one minute.
2. Most Liked Tweet Ever
The American actor silently battled colon cancer for four years whilst also featuring in some of the biggest box office movies in the world.
The posthumous tweet posted from his account received a record-breaking 7,500,000 likes, as verified on 1 September 2020.Advertisements
Sharing the tweet from Boseman’s team regarding the tragic news of his passing, Twitter confirmed its status as the most liked tweet ever by saying it was “a tribute fit for a King”.
3 First person to 100 million followers on TikTok
It was a meteoric rise to TikTok stardom for 16-year-old Charli D’Amelio in 2020.
In April of 2020, she became the first person to reach 50 million followers on TikTok and now holds the record for the first person to reach 100 million followers on TikTok, which she achieved on 22 November 2020.
4 Most viewed video on YouTube
Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark Dance” YouTube video reached a historic 7,042,967,886 views on 2 November 2020.
In doing so it broke three records:
- Most viewed music video on YouTube
- Most viewed video on YouTube
- Most viewed children’s music video on YouTube
The children’s rhyme was initially uploaded to YouTube on the 17 June 2016.
5 Most Like Picture on Instagram
“The World Record Egg was posted three years ago today and is STILL the most liked picture on Instagram with 55.5 million likes,” Guinness World Records tweeted.
The image of a brown egg was shared by an account named world_record_egg on January 4, 2019. “Let’s set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the current world record held by Kylie Jenner (18 million)! We got this,” the caption of the post read.