Obama marks win with Twitter record

A second term and a Twitter record – with much to celebrate, a picture of an intimate embrace with his wife Michelle has become President Barack Obama’s most popular tweet ever with over half a million retweets and counting.

Just moments after his dream of a second term was realised, the president shared the celebratory tweet, accompanied by the words ’Four more years’, with his 22.5 million followers, leading to speculation it could be the most shared tweet in the history of Twitter.