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Twitter's journey to superstardom [See 10 powerful images]

New Delhi: Over the last few years Twitter has become one of the fastest-growing and most influential social media services, used widely by celebrities, journalists, politicians and others. The micro-blogging network has reached such a

Pic 8. It is also one of most popular tweets of all time. Moments after winning the re-election, US president Barack Obama tweeted a picture of himself hugging the first lady, quickly eclipsing a Justin Bieber tweet for retweet champion.



The tweet quickly logged more than 350,000 retweets and 100,000 votes as favorite tweets, easily surpassing a Justin Bieber tweet grieving the passing of Avalanna Routh, a young fan who died of brain cancer in September, which held the title with a little more than 223,000 retweets
 
Twitter's Government feed has also confirmed that this year's Election Day was the "most tweeted about event in US political history," with over 20 million tweets. The service saw a rate of 327,000 tweets per minute following news of Obama's re-election.



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